The President will appear shortly to make remarks on Senate passage of the debt deal. Watch.
By a final vote of 81-18, the Senate gave final passage to the bipartisan debt limit deal that will avoid default and end the government shutdown. The House will take it up later this evening.
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The Senate is about to vote on the debt limit deal, in a series of two votes in the next few minutes.
As part of the deal, the Senate just agreed by unanimous consent to go into a budget conference with the House — something Democrats have been seeking for months, but which Republicans had rejected until just before the government shutdown, when they switched strategies.
Once the Senate passes the debt deal, it will go to the House, where a vote is expected later this evening.
You can read the bill here. More on what it contains here and here.
Ted Cruz, who says the shutdown/debt limit resolution is a “terrible deal,” went on conservative radio and likened Senate Republicans to an “air force bombing our own troops.”
Speaker Boehner says he will bring the Senate debt deal to a vote in the House. “We fought the good fight, we just didn’t win,” Boehner said on a Cincinnati radio show. Asked if the bill will pass, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) told a few reporters: “I won’t be surprised at all.”
House Republicans: We had a great plan but the media stabbed us in the back.
After this, I have to imagine that next year every Democratic candidate outside the South starts their campaign asking their Republican opponent to pledge that they’ll never shut down the government or threatening default again.
That always plays into what happens in January of next year.