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Washington mdash; Congress appears to be barreling toward another government shutdown, with Republicans in the House struggling to coalesce around a plan to fund federal agencies beyond a fast-approaching Oct. 1 deadline.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is insisting that billions of dollars to tighten border security be included in any stopgap measure to keep the government operating past Saturday night. The House voted on Tuesday to advance four full-year appropriations bills, which are unlikely to go anywhere in the Senate.In the upper chamber, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is taking his own steps to advance a short-term funding measure, which attracted strong bipartisan support in a test vote on Tuesday. McCarthy said Wednesday that there is
stanley cup little support in the House GOP conference for the Senate s bill, and he plans to move forward with his own version of a short-term extension later this week. A government shu
stanley cup tdown occurs when Congress fails to approve funding for federal agencies. Before 1980, agencies largely continued operating during a lapse in funding with the assumption that Congress would act quickly. But in 1980 and 1981, then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti authored a series of legal opinions that found government agencies didn t have the
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NEW YORK -- An emergency room doctor who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation.CBS New York identified the patient as Dr. Craig Spencer, 33. He recently returned from Guinea, where he worked at an Ebola treatment center with the aid group Doctors Without Borders. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday urged residents not to be alarmed by the doctor s Ebola diagnosis, even as they described him riding the subway, taking a cab
stanley cup and bowling. De Blasio said all city officials followed clear and strong protocols in their handling and treatment of him. We want to state at the outset that New Yorkers have no reason to be alarmed, de Blasio said at a news conference, repeating that the Ebola virus can only be transmitted through contact with bodily fluids. New Yorkers who have not been exposed are not a
adidas samba t all at risk. Dr. Craig Spencer, who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, tested positive for the virus in a New York hospital. CBS News The Centers fo
af1 r Disease Control and Prevention confirmed it is sending a team to New York to deal with the case. The agency will conduct additional tests to confirm Spencer s diagnosis. Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, NYC Health Commissio
