Senate approves bill to end the shutdown, sending it to the House

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The 41-day shutdown could last a few more days as members of the House return to Washington to vote on the legislation.
The bill as amended is passed.
>> Overnight, the Senate officially passing
a bill to reopen the government, putting
Congress on track to end the longest
shutdown in American history.
>> This has been a very long road, quite
literally the longest shutdown in
history. I am very, very happy to be
able to say that we are coming to the
end.
>> The bill now heads to the House. Members
scrambling back to Washington after
being out of town for more than 50 days.
You need to begin right now returning to
the Hill. We have to do this as quickly
as possible.
>> The House will hold its first round of
votes Wednesday afternoon, but the deal
leaving many Democrats outraged because
it does nothing to address the expiring
Obamacare subsidies that the party spent
weeks holding out on as a precondition
for reopening the government.
>> We're not going to support
partisan Republican spending bill that
continues to gut the health care of the
American people. Instead, the deal
reached in the Senate comes with a
promise from Republicans to hold a
future vote on health care. Even
Republicans acknowledging that's not
going anywhere.
>> It seems like the healthc care bill that
Democrats will be putting on the floor
has a very low chance of getting any
Republican support.
>> Yeah, I would say it won't get any.
>> So, we asked Democratic senators why
they decided to reopen the government
without their key demand. People are
aware now that this is an issue and they
know who's fighting for them. But it's
time to end the suffering that people
are feeling because of this government
shutdown. The impacts of the shutdown
rippling across the country from delayed
food assistance to missed paychecks and
massive travel delays due to a shortage
of air traffic controllers and TSA
agents. The president calling for air
traffic controllers who have been
working without pay to be penalized if
they haven't shown up for work. The
president writing on social media that
those who called out should leave their
jobs with no payment or severance of any
kind, while those who didn't take time
off should get a bonus of $10,000.
>> We should not have had people leaving
their jobs. And what I basically did is
say the ones that stayed of which were
there were a lot of them, I'm sending
them a $10,000 bond.
>> Where's that money coming from? Uh
>> I don't know. I get it from someplace.
>> Rachel Scott, ABC News, Washington.
