Bill that ended government shutdown could pay Tennessee’s US senators minimum $500K each
How the city's elected representatives in D.C. voted on the shutdown, from left, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Steve Cohen and David Kustoff. (The Daily Memphian files)
The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history formally ended Wednesday, Nov. 12, with a 222-209 U.S. House vote to fund the federal government through January 30, 2026.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, voted no on the funding measure while U.S. Rep. David Kustoff, R-Germantown, voted for the bill along with the seven other Republicans in the Tennessee House delegation on the 42nd day of the shutdown.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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