The funding bills are often grouped together into a large piece of legislation.

Washington The Senate easily passed a stopgap funding bill late Wednesday night.Neither [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell nor I want a shutdown.

while dozens of Republicans opposed it.while the Senate has passed three that were grouped together in a minibus.averting a government shutdown and punting a spending fight in Congress until early next year.

and ended up in the same situation as McCarthy needing Democratic votes to pass a bill that did not include spending cuts demanded by conservatives.The Housepassed the bill.

Hard-right members upset by the short-term extension that did not include spending cuts and who wanted the House to pass the appropriations bills individually moved to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as their leader.

17 just hours before it was set to shutdown.at one point re-playing audio of DePape telling law enforcement that Nancy Pelosi was the leader of the pack and highlighting why he went to the Pelosi home on October 28.

so it will reconvene and continue deliberating Thursday morning.His attorneys argued that he was not seeking to go after Nancy Pelosi because of her official duties as a member of Congress and so the charges did not fit.

he said when asked why he hit Pelosi.identified as Target 1 in court papers.