The Senate on Monday cleared a key procedural hurdle toward greenlighting a package to reopen the government, the first of a series of planned back-to-back votes.
Senators voted 60-40 to grease the skids toward final passage of the funding bill Monday night.
The eight senators who crossed party lines to vote to advance the funding bill Sunday night once again voted with every Republican except Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
The package would keep the governmen...