The package that the Senate approved Monday night to reopen the government included more than just the spending bill.

Congress is moving quickly to pass a funding package that would end the longest federal shutdown in the nation’s history.

It came shortly after the House, the lower chamber of the US Congress, passed the bill in a 222 to 209 vote, with six Democrats joining the Republicans to vote yes It's been 43 days since the shutdown...

Earlier in the day, his budget office championed it in a statement as devoid of “any of the partisan, ‘poison pill’ provisions demanded by the Democrats.”

House GOP wants to repeal a provision that would allow senators to sue the government for accessing their data without their knowledge.