hurricanemaxi
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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:14 am Post subject: Senate Approves Plan to Avoid Shutdown |
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The U.S. Senate reached a bipartisan deal on stopgap spending designed to avoid a government shutdown and defuse a fight over aid to victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters.
Senators approved legislation yesterday, 79-12, to finance the government through Nov. 18, a measure including $2.65 billion for federal disaster assistance.
With the expectation that the House would consent, senators also passed on a voice vote a measure to tide the government over through Oct. 4 so that the House, in recess this week, can consider the longer funding measure. The 2011 fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, and the House can approve the short-term bill by unanimous consent without bringing members back to Washington.
“We expect speedy passage of this agreement by the House so that the flow of disaster aid is not interrupted,” New York Senator Charles Schumer, the chamber’s third-ranking Democrat, told reporters after the votes. “It is hard to see how the House Republicans could reject this proposal given the overwhelming” support it got in the Senate.
The Senate deal broke a partisan impasse over the insistence by House Republicans on cutting other programs to offset $1 billion the Obama administration sought to shore up the disaster-relief fund through Sept. 30. That issue became moot after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday it had enough funds to help disaster victims this week, said Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Schumer.
FEMA had previously said it would run out of money as early as yesterday or today. “FEMA says they have the money to cover it,” Fallon said.
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