Legislation sent by Congress to President Clinton avoids a partial government shutdown at midnight tonight, but the broader impasse over spending priorities is dragging on nearly six months into the fiscal year.
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The one-week spending bill adopted Thursday by Congress buys more time for lawmakers and the administration to settle differences over a $160 billion measure to carry the government through the 6 1/2 months left in fiscal 1996.President Clinton is expected to sign the stopgap bill keeping the government open through March 22. Neither Democrats nor Republicans wanted the political fallout from sending thousands of government workers home in what would have been the third partial shutdown in five months.