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Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill To Avoid Shutdown

Cara Palmer |
September 22, 2012 | 11:45 a.m. PDT

Executive Producer

The 112th Congress has ended session ahead of the November election. (Talk Radio News Service, Creative Commons)
The 112th Congress has ended session ahead of the November election. (Talk Radio News Service, Creative Commons)
The 112th Congress has ended its business before the November election. The Senate passed a stopgap measure to fund federal programs past September, and to avoid a government shutdown in October.

The vote on the funding bill had been delayed for days due to partisan bickering over other votes. The stopgap spending bill, approved by a vote of 62-30, was sent to the White House for the president’s signature.

Go here to see a summary of what the 112th Congress has accomplished, and what it has left undone to hopefully accomplish in the lame-duck session.

 

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