Congress on Path to Adjournment After Senate Passes Omnibus

• By Emily Pierce
• Roll Call Staff
• Dec. 18, 2007, 11:51 p.m.

After months of trying and failing to buck the president’s dual demands for lower spending and unrestrained funding for the Iraq War, the Senate on Tuesday passed a scaled-back, but still massive, catchall spending bill along with funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.