Senate Advances Bill To Avert Government Shutdown

Roll Call reports:

The Senate overwhelmingly voted Tuesday night in favor of the first procedural move needed to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.

The chamber voted 68-13 to end debate on the motion to proceed to the shell legislative vehicle for the stopgap spending measure, which would run to March 1 for four of the dozen annual appropriations bills and until March 8 for the remaining eight.

Leadership in both chambers are in favor of the stopgap measure, which is designed to give appropriators more time to negotiate final fiscal 2024 appropriations bills following the $1.66 trillion topline agreement Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., announced earlier this month.

Read the full article. The House GOP canceled its own vote yesterday, supposedly due to a DC snowstorm, but more probably because some Republicans couldn’t get back to DC from Iowa due to canceled flights.

The Senate voted Tuesday night overwhelmingly in favor of the first procedural move needed to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of this week. https://t.co/Tqq08NkAsl pic.twitter.com/pbWZOUUCW4

— Roll Call (@rollcall) January 17, 2024

13 Senate Republicans voted No against beginning work on a short-term CR to avert a gov’t shutdown Friday at midnight: Braun, Britt, Budd, Crapo, Cruz, Johnson, Lee, Marshall, Paul, Risch, Scott-FL, Scott-SC and Vance.

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 17, 2024