The Senate late Friday night approved year-end legislation that ended the threat of a short-term government shutdown. Senators voted 63 to 36 to approve the measure less than an hour before the midnight deadline. Democrats used a standoff over the year-end spending bill to appeal to the working-class white voters they lost to President-elect Donald Trump, insisting on health-care benefits for retired coal miners and requiring the use of American steel in infrastructure projects.
   
 
News Alert Fri., Dec. 09, 2016 11:28 p.m.
  
 
Senate approves spending bill minutes before deadline, averting government shutdown
The Senate late Friday night approved year-end legislation that ended the threat of a short-term government shutdown. Senators voted 63 to 36 to approve the measure less than an hour before the midnight deadline. Democrats used a standoff over the year-end spending bill to appeal to the working-class white voters they lost to President-elect Donald Trump, insisting on health-care benefits for retired coal miners and requiring the use of American steel in infrastructure projects.
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