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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
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