The Senate has passed a spending plan hours before the shutdown deadline when government funding expires.

John Boehner will resign from Congress at the end of October, lawmakers said.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to block federal payments to Planned Parenthood for a year, though the action didnt satisfy some Republicans who are prepared to shut down the federal government over the issue.

Shortly before midnight Thursday, without fanfare, the U.S. House voted to repeal a Washington D.C. law that will prohibit employers from discriminating against workers who obtain abortions or use birth control.

The U.S. House adopted a budget plan that would allow congressional Republicans to bypass Democrats and send President Barack Obama a bill to repeal his landmark health-care law.

Republicans in Congress are committed to using their budget agreement to send President Barack Obama a bill repealing his 2010 health care law.

Republicans in Congress who came to power pledging tight-fisted budgeting are going on a tax-cut and spending binge that would boost federal deficits by a half-trillion dollars.

Lawmakers in both parties hailed the 392-37 vote as a breakthrough for a chamber often depicted as dysfunctional.