Government Shutdown Avoided as House, Senate Pass Stopgap Measure

By Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square (Worthy News) – The second attempt to pass a temporary funding stopgap bill succeeded Wednesday in both the U.S. House and Senate, as Congress is set to leave town for six weeks. The new Continuing Resolution HR 9747 passed by a vote of 341-82 in the House with 82 Republicans voting against it. It later passed in the Senate, 78-18. The bill was debated earlier Wednesday on Capitol Hill under suspension of the rules and needed a two-thirds majority vote in e