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Week 5: Shutdown votes set up political test for Senate

(Susan Walsh | The Associated Press) Construction cones used to cover walkway flaws, stand along the sidewalk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. On the edge of a government shutdown, a divided House voted late Thursday to keep the government open past a Friday deadline — setting up an eleventh-hour standoff in the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to kill the measure.