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The Senate is taking the first procedural vote on a short-term spending measure as the government faces a Friday deadline to avert a partial shutdown.

Facing a potential shutdown at the end of the week, Congress aims to push the deadlines into early March.

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The snowstorms pummeling much of the country -- including D.C. -- will keep the majority of the federal government at home Tuesday, but not the Senate, whose members are expected to brave the weather to cast t...

Congressional leaders rolled out a two-step plan to stave off a partial government shutdown this week, kicking the funding threat into early March to buy more time for spending talks. The legislation, unveiled Sunday evening, would fund some areas of the federal government through March 1, while extending funding for the remaining agencies through March 8. It would…

Just five days remain until a key government funding deadline, and even after congressional leaders announced a deal to avert a shutdown until March, the schedule leaves little room for error.