House Approves Bipartisan Budget Bill
The House on Thursday approved a bipartisan budget accord and a Pentagon policy bill that would strengthen protections for victims of sexual assault as it wrapped up its business for the year. But if left unfinished a major piece of domestic policy — the farm bill — making it likely that the law would lapse at the end of the year.
Republicans and Democrats hope the budget pact will act as a truce in the spending battles that have paralyzed Congress for nearly three years, as leaders in both parties sought to marginalize hard-line conservatives opposed to any compromise.
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