House approves $1.3 trillion spending bill and sends it to the Senate as deadline approaches
by Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
Mar 22, 2018
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - A $1.3 trillion spending bill was approved by the House and sent to the Senate on Thursday after a flurry of unsuccessful Democratic efforts to stall it and force legislators to take up a measure to protect young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
The vote came as legislators faced a deadline of Friday for a government shutdown. It also came just hours after the release of the 2,232-page bill, meaning that few voting on the bill had
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