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As the clock ticked down to midnight, House Republicans announced that they would try to shift decision-making to a bipartisan conference of lawmakers from both chambers, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid immediately rejected that plan.
“We will not go to conference with a gun to our head," he said.
The House requested the conference -- and it again approved its already-rejected short-term spending bill -- in votes after 1 a.m. ET before recessing for the evening.
The Senate will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. ET, and Reid promised to immediately table -- or kill -- the House conference plan first thing Tuesday.
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