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Congressional Leaders Unveil Short-Term Spending Bill Tied to Disaster Aid


What started out as a simple stopgap measure to avert a shutdown for a few months became a magnet for more than $100 billion in emergency disaster and farm aid, plus a host of unrelated policy measures.




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