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Montana lawmakers speak on stopping government shutdown

Montana's three-member congressional delegation Wednesday voted for a short term budget resolution that will keep the government open for 10 weeks, without stripping the budget of funding for Planned Parenthood.

The short term resolution passed 78-20 in the Senate and later in the House by a vote of 277-151, hours before the government was scheduled to run out of money and would have shut down many services.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a 2016 presidential aspirant, along with some other conservative lawmakers have called for blocking any government funding bill that did not stop federal fun...

 

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