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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., leaves a news conference with Republican leaders, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Congress passes $1.3 trillion spending bill

The House approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday to fund the government for the rest of fiscal year 2018 and the Senate followed suit early Friday morning, beating the shutdown deadline and leaving Republicans and Democrats to fight over credit and blame.

March 22, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., listen to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Steny Hoyer: ‘I have not read the bill’

Anger over the $1.3 trillion spending bill boiled over on the House floor Thursday with lawmakers admitting they had no chance to read the 2,232-page bill they're being asked to accept.

March 22, 2018
In this Dec. 15, 2010, file photo an American flag flutters in the wind on a nearby resident's home near a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle near where agent Brian Terry was killed, northwest of Nogales, Ariz. (Greg Bryan /Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Border Patrol agents want technology, not wall: Dem study

Border Patrol leaders and line agents say publicly that more fencing will help them control the U.S.-Mexico line -- but a new Democratic report Thursday says what they're really asking for behind closed doors is more personnel and technology.

March 22, 2018
From left: Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer, founder James Larkin, Chief Operating Officer Andrew Padilla, and founder Michael Lacey testified before Congress last year about the website's facilitation of online sex trafficking. Mr. Larkin gave $10,000 to House Majority PAC, which is connected to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. (Associated Press/File)

Senate clears bill to punish websites for sex-trafficking ads

Brushing aside warnings about censoring the internet, Republican and Democratic senators linked arms and voted Wednesday to impose new rules on online forums, pushing them to do more to police their postings in hopes of stopping an explosion of sex trafficking, particularly of children.

March 21, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, are warning Republicans in high-tax blue states of an electoral backlash from middle-class suburbanites if they approve a tax reform bill without state and local tax deductions. (Associated Press/File)

Trump’s immigration initiatives ignored in $1.3 trillion spending bill

Congressional leaders on Wednesday reached agreement on a $1.3 trillion plan to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, pouring new money into gun background checks and anti-opioid efforts but limiting President Trump's calls for investment in stiffer immigration enforcement.

March 21, 2018
In this Feb. 1, 2018 photo, a Saudi soldier guards an aid flight at an air base in Marib, Yemen. Saudi Arabia under King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has replaced its military chief of staff and other defense officials amid its stalemated war in Yemen early Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Senate defends U.S. help to Saudi Arabia in Yemen civil war

The Senate shot down an attempt Tuesday to force the U.S. to halt its support for one of the sides in Yemen's ongoing civil war, giving President Trump a free hand to continue aiding a Saudi-led coalition in the fight.

March 20, 2018
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined at left by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., meets with reporters following a GOP strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. With the Democrat edging past the Republican in the Pennsylvania special election in a Trump-heavy district, Ryan fielded questions on whether it was a wake-up call for the November midterms. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP leaders: Do it for the troops on spending bill

Republican leaders told balky conservatives Tuesday to drop their complaints and approve a budget-busting spending bill in order in order to get the Pentagon more money and end what they have deemed a "readiness crisis" in the military.

March 20, 2018
Thousands of people take part in the ``Free the People Immigration March,'' to protest actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration, in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 18, 2017. March and rally organizers are calling for an end to ICE raids and deportations, minority killings by police and that health care be provided for documented and undocumented individuals. Immigrant, faith, labor and community groups are expected to attend, calling for sanctuary to be given to immigrants.. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

California city votes to opt out of sanctuary law

A small California city voted Monday to opt out of the state's new sanctuary law, with the city's leaders saying they hoped others would follow their lead and defy the restrictions placed on their ability to cooperate with federal authorities.

March 20, 2018
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meets with reporters following a GOP strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Rattled Republicans were hit with the reality check Wednesday in the startling strong performance of a fresh-faced Democrat deep in Trump country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan: Trump won’t fire Mueller

Top Republicans said Tuesday they're confident President Trump won't try to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, saying he should be allowed to finish his probe into the 2016 elections.

March 20, 2018
Rep. Justin Amash, Michigan Republican (Associated Press)

Spending bill: Republicans rush to beat shutdown

Congressional Republicans were rushing to put finishing touches on a $1.3 trillion bill Monday to fund the government for the rest of fiscal year 2018, retreating on most conservative demands in order to earn help from Democrats in passing the bill by a shutdown deadline Friday.

March 19, 2018