House Passes Plan To Avert Federal Shutdown

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    The House has passed both the continuing resolution that funds the rest of this fiscal year, averting a government shutdown, and the Republican-written budget plan for the next fiscal year.

    FOX News Radio’s Rich Johnson reports from Washington:

    In sort of a debate between the bodies, House Budget Committee Chairman Republican Paul Ryan lays out his party’s differences with Senate Democrats.

    (Ryan) “We want to balance the budget. They don’t. We want to restrain spending. They want to spend more money.”

    Senate Budget Committee Chair Democrat Patty Murray says the Ryan plan…

    (Murray) “Takes extreme cuts to our infrastructure that’s crumbling, to education that’s so important to our future.”

    Once both budget proposals are passed comes the months-long job of trying to find compromise.

    In Washington, Rich Johnson, FOX News Radio.

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