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$174B spending package to avert shutdown clears key hurdle in Senate

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The Senate advanced a three-bill spending package through its final procedural hurdle on Thursday, teeing up a final vote later in the day.Lawmakers are in a mad dash to avert a partial government shutdown after just exiting the longest closure in history a few short months ago, and they have a deadline on Jan. 30 to beat.Thursday’s first vote was a key test of whether the warring parties could come together or again fall victim to political divisions as they did in September. The overwhelmingly bipartisan vote proved, for now, that Senate Republicans and Democrats have a truce in the governme...