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House Dems, Public Interest Groups Push for Clean Spending Bill

Members of the House Democratic Caucus joined several public interest groups and progressive organizations Thursday to call on House leadership to reject divisive policy riders in the fiscal 2016 Omnibus and to bring a clean spending bill to the floor. More than 160 Members of Congress signed a letter to House leadership, calling on them to prevent another unnecessary government shutdown by rejecting poison-pill provisions and partisan brinksmanship.