from the NOTE (ABCNews dot-com list serv blog) by Michael Falcone and Amy Walter =
The House and Senate passed temporary resolutions to keep the government funded after midnight last night when it was scheduled to run out. A full agreement will need to be drafted and passed by Congress next week. The short-term "bridge," as House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, described it last night, includes the first $2 billion in cuts.
"I would expect the final vote on this to occur mid-next week," Boehner said. "This has been a long discussion and a long fight, but we fought to keep government spending down because it really will, in fact, help create a better environment for job creators in our country."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a speech on the Senate floor last night, "This is historic, what we've done."
BOTTOM LINE: It was messy. It was unnecessarily dramatic. But, it ended without monuments being shuttered or troops waiting for a paycheck. And, in the end, everyone gets to claim victory. Democrats get to say that they cut spending while also protecting women's reproductive rights. Republicans can crow that they forced President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid to make deeper cuts than Democrats wanted to make.
Welcome to the "new normal" of bipartisanship.
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