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    Senate defeats 2 competing bills to reopen government

    by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2019 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday voted down competing proposals to reopen the government, ensuring the monthlong, increasingly bitter stalemate over President Donald Trump's wall along the southern border will extend until next week.

    The votes - the first the Senate has held since the partial government shutdown began Dec. 22 - fell largely along partisan lines, with but a few notable defections on both sides. Neither got the 60 votes required.

    Democrats rejected, by a vote of 50-47, a plan outlined by Trump over the weekend that would pair border wall

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