Obama signs short-term funding bill into law

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US President Barack Obama early Wednesday signed into law a stopgap measure to fund the US government through November 18 after US lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bill.
The US House of Representatives passed the measure on Tuesday by a 352-66 vote, sending it to the White House with plenty of time to avert a partial government shutdown.
The White House later confirmed in a statement that the president had signed the bill into law shortly after midnight.
The Senate passed the legislation last week amid calls from key lawmakers to avoid the kind of angry standoff that led two months ago to the downgrade of Washington’s once-sterling debt rating.
Feuds over disaster aid in the wake of Hurricane Irene as well as over a push to cut government spending and rein in the galloping deficit had brought Congress to the brink of seeing non-vital services disrupted for lack of funds as the fiscal year 2012 dawned Saturday.

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  1. Recent worst economic situation and wide spread protest from wall street to other big US cities is enough to open eyes of high authorities in USA. True reality is that without solving problems of own people you can’t solve crises of all over the world. Increasing poverty, unemployment, closure of Banks, vacant houses, increasing tent cities, increasing debts crises and falling dollar value is showing real conditions of US economy. 1.5 homeless children and one hundred thousand war veterans are true reality on US soil. Unfortunately despite bad to worse US high authorities don’t want to learn lesson from history due to heavy war expenditures and intervention in other countries affairs former world super power Soviet Union has wipeout from today’s world map. Now wish to acting as police man of today’s world unfortunately US is just following footsteps of former Soviet union. Now even killing of Bin Laden or Anwar Awlaki can’t stop falling graph of popularity of US president which is in lowest level when Brak Obama entered in White house. People need own daily necessities of life usually don’t interested in other countries affairs.

    • I think you are right! It actually started in the 80's with Ronald Reagan from Afghan conflict. And then Collin Powell's famous statement to George Bush on Iraq: "it's the pottery store rule: once you break it, you own it!". And internally Allan Greenspan's charming word like "conundrum"…

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