{"id":35799,"date":"2019-11-19T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/11\/19\/house-votes-to-avert-shutdown-through-dec-20\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:52:25","slug":"house-votes-to-avert-shutdown-through-dec-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/11\/19\/house-votes-to-avert-shutdown-through-dec-20\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to avert government shutdown through Dec. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2015 The House passed a stopgap funding bill<\/a> Tuesday to fund the government through Dec. 20, moving one step closer to averting a government shutdown<\/a> and buying time for a possible resolution of partisan budget disputes that have dragged on for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump is expected to sign the continuing resolution after it passes the Senate. House Democrats muscled through the continuing resolution, 231-192, with 10 Democrats voting \u201cnay\u201d and 12 Republicans voting \u201cyea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill would temporarily extend three Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provisions and add spending for the 2020 census. The bill also included a spending measure for the Import-Export Bank as well as a provision for a 3.1 percent pay raise for troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., signaled Monday he would take up the bill, so long as it avoided contentious policy riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is what we need: A CR, as clean as possible, through Dec. 20, to enable more progress on appropriations before the end of the year,\u201d he said. \u201cA clean CR through Dec. 20 would pass the Senate. And the White House has indicated President Trump would sign it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\t