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The Senate passed legislation to avert a government shutdown this weekend as negotiators worked to finalize an agreement to provide funding through September.
A bill passed Wednesday would require officials to remove a statue of Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the racist Dred Scott decision, from its place on the Senate side of the Capitol.