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Senate Dems Relent, Vote to End Shutdown; House to Follow
Celebrating their bipartisan effort, senators gather outside the chamber following a procedural vote aimed at reopening the government, at the Capitol in Washington,
Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. From left are, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Maggie
Hassan, D-N.H., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
By ALAN FRAM The vote set the stage for hundreds of thou- Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s
ANDREW TAYLOR sands of federal workers to return on Tuesday, commitment to quickly tackle the issue of the
ZEKE MILLER cutting short what could have become a messy “dreamers” was contingent on Democrats pro-
Associated Press and costly impasse. The House was expected viding enough votes now for a stopgap spend-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sped toward to vote later in the day. ing funding measure lasting a little less than
reopening the government Monday as Demo- But by relenting, the Democrats prompted a three weeks. Sixty votes were needed to end
crats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for backlash from immigration activists and liberal the Democrats’ filibuster, and the party’s sen-
resumed operations, relenting in a fight over im- base supporters who wanted them to fight lon- ators provided 33 of the 81 the measure got.
migration in return for assurances from Repub- ger and harder for legislation to protect from Eighteen senators, including members of both
lican leaders that the Senate will soon take up deportation the 700,0090 or so younger immi- parties, were opposed.
the plight of young “dreamers” and other con- grants who were brought to the country as chil-
tentious issues. dren and now are here illegally. Continued on Page 3