The New York Times
Thu, April 14, 2011 -- 3:14 PM ET
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House Passes Compromise Budget Bill
The House passed legislation on Thursday to finance the
federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, the final
House vote in a budget showdown that had threatened to close
down the federal government until an eleventh-hour compromise
was struck late last week.
The vote was 260 to 167, with 59 members of the House
Republican majority and more than half the chamber's
Democratic minority voting against the legislation.
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio had predicted that the
measure would pass with significant support from both
parties, despite opposition from conservative members of his
own caucus, who said the spending cuts were insufficient, and
from liberal Democrats who called them excessive.
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