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With just three days left to avert a government shutdown, the Democratic-led Senate on Friday voted 54 to 44, along party lines, to fund federal operations for a few more months. The bill would keep the government through Nov. 15 at a $986 billion spending level. The bill now goes back to the Republican-led House, where legislators will have to decide whether to accept the bill as passed or amend it again. They could pass some form of the legislation and send it to President Obama as early as Saturday. This is it. Time is gone, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Friday after the Senate vote. The bill would pass the House -- the bill we just passed -- would pass the House overwhelmingly if the Speaker took it to the floor... I think they should think very carefully about their next step. Any bill that continues to play political games will force a government shutdo vaso stanley wn. stanley cups House Republicans shift Obamacare demands to next fiscal fightWhat happens if the government shu stanley shop ts down Negotiations over the spending bill -- referred to as a continuing resolution CR -- have come down to the wire because conservatives have been using the threat of a government shutdown as leverage in their attempts to dismantle Obamacare. The House last week passed a spending bill that included a provision to defund the health care law, but it was removed in the Senate. Reid has said that the Senate would never accept a spending bill that def Kepe Senate GOP Pledge to Block Dems Legislation
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