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Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:15 AM Oct 2013

TYT: Shutdown Over, GOP Crushed, Funding Secured (Until January)



"Both the Senate and the House of Representatives voted to reopen the federal government and lift the debt limit on Wednesday evening, after an 11th-hour agreement reached earlier in the day by Senate majority leader Harry Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell. 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 the 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.
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