The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a stop-gap spending measure that averts an Oct. 1 government shutdown and extends the U.S. Export-Import Bank's ability to operate for another nine months.
The bill proposed by House and Senate Democrats last night might result in the further tightening of rules on disbursing financial aid refunds and revenue-sharing agreements of companies like Higher One with colleges, Buzzfeed wrote.
A legislation that would provide continued support of charter schools in the US has received bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, the Times-Picayune said.
President Barack Obama blamed House Speaker John Boehner for the government shutdown, which did not show any let up in its third day, The Associated Press reported. In addition to the House Speaker, Obama also blamed a small group of conservative Republicans who want "to extract concessions in exchange for passing a short term spending bill that would restart the partially stuttered government."
