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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 12, 2014

The House narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion spending package on Thursday that would fund most government operations for the fiscal year. The accord was reached just hours before the midnight deadline, in a 219-206 vote, amid the last-minute brinkmanship and bickering that has come to mark one of Congress’s most polarized — and least productive — eras, the New York Times reports. The legislation now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it in the coming days. Rep. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, was the only Middle Tennessee representative, Democrat or Republican, to vote for the bill.