Finally, after days of negotiation.....
President Barack Obama signed a bill to reopen the federal government and lift the debt limit just after midnight on Thursday morning, after an 11th-hour agreement reached on Wednesday by Senate majority leader Harry Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate voted 81-18 in favor of the measure, while the House voted 285-144 in favor.
The bipartisan votes in both houses of Congress set the stage for an end to the 16-day government shutdown hours before the federal government’s borrowing authority is set to expire. Speaker of the House John Boehner conceded earlier on Wednesday that his conference’s strategy to demand concessions in exchange for reopening the government had failed. “Blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us,” he said in a statement.
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/16/end-to-government-shutdown-senate-house-vote-obama-deal/#ixzz2i3mua9uS
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