US Senate, House Working on Funding, Debt Bills

U.S. House and Senate leaders are negotiating separate bills to end the two-week-old partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling so the country can keep paying its bills. Republicans say the House plans to vote later Tuesday on a bill to fund the government through January 15 and raise the debt ceiling through February 7. It would also make changes to President Barack Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act. The Senate bill includes reopening government and a ...

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