The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, joined the White House in announcing support for a $1.1 trillion spending plan that would avert a U.S. government shutdown and lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.
The spending bill, which would fund the government through September 2016, is being paired in Congress with a separate $622 billion measure to revive a series of expired tax breaks. Pelosi, of California, told House Democrats she would vote for the spending bill in a private meeting Thursday morning, spokesman Drew Hammill said.
