Washington:
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to continue funding federal agencies and avert a costly election-year government shutdown, advancing a stopgap funding measure that could pass the Senate within hours.
With cash set to dry up in many departments after 11.59pm on Friday, the Republican-led House of Commons passed a bill to keep the lights on until at least March 8.
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