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The Senate easily approved a procedural motion to proceed to another stopgap measure to keep federal agencies funded through March 11.Passed by a vote of 65 to 30, the Senate action came as the government veered toward a possible partial shutdown over the weekend.Funding under a current stopgap measure was to expire at midnight February 18.Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, urged his fellow senators to approve the motion and give appropriators more time to complete work on an omnibus package for fiscal year 2022."A government shutdown would be useless, senseless," Leahy said.He complimented the ongoing negotiations to hammer out an omnibus appropriations measure that would allow major changes in the way government programs would be funded for the last half of the current fiscal year. |