With the Senate still wrangling over when to vote on a $1.1 trillion government funding measure, the House on Friday passed a bill that will give lawmakers more time, without the threat of a government closure.
House lawmakers by voice vote approved a five-day extension of the current government funding levels, which means Congress has until Dec. 17 to clear the larger package for President Obama’s signature.
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Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., earlier Friday urged lawmakers to pass the bill as early as Friday, but as of late in the day, there was no immediate plan to debate it.
The bill has garnered the opposition of the most conservative and most liberal of Senate lawmakers, who oppose the measure for a variety of reasons.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., joined Sen. David Vitter, R-La. want to attach an amendment to the bill that would strip out a provision that rolls back a Wall Street banking reform.
Other conservatives say they don’t like the bill because it does not take steps to prohibit President Obama from carrying out an executive action that will allow five million illegal immigrants to obtain work permits.
