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Congress Will Vote Soon to Avoid Shutdown

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The Senate and House are set to vote Wednesday on a stopgap spending measure that would prevent a government shutdown.
 
The bill allows 10 more weeks to negotiate a budget for 2016.

At issue are automatic spending curbs that freeze current budgets. Republicans want to boost defense spending, while the president wants equal relief for domestic programs.

The bill comes one week after Democrats successfully filibustered a stopgap measure that would have defunded Planned Parenthood.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the latest measure "hardly represents my preferred method for funding the government. But it's now the most viable way forward after Democrats' extreme actions forced our country into this situation."

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