Boehner to Allow House Vote on Senate Spending Deal
Will pass largely with Democrat votes
Senate leaders struck a bipartisan 11th-hour deal to break the fiscal impasse on Wednesday, and the Republican-led House of Representatives agreed to take it up as Congress moved to avert a historic debt default.
With the government's borrowing authority set to run out on Thursday, aides said House Speaker John Boehner would allow the deeply divided House to vote on the Senate plan for a short-term increase in the debt limit and a government reopening, which was expected to pass with mostly Democratic votes.
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