Shutdown Averted: In a narrow vote, the House of Representatives approved a year-long suspension of the nation’s debt limit — one without strings attached — sending the measure to the Senate for a final vote, probably this week. “It wasn’t exactly a profile in courage,” Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), one of the 28 Republicans who voted yes, said afterward. “You had members saying they hoped it passed but unwilling to vote for it,” the Washington Post reports.
Union Busters: Republican legislators in Tennessee are pressuring workers at a Volkswagen plant not to unionize, warning that if they do, the state may withhold future subsidies, The New York Times reports. “The members of the Tennessee Senate will not view unionization as in the best interest of Tennessee,” one Republican state senator said. State Democrats call it an “outrageous and unprecedented effort by state officials to violate the rights of employers and workers.”
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