Jennifer Steinhauer The New York Times

But scanning a table of house-made pickles, spicy shrimp cocktail sauce and three sugar cream pies from Indiana to feed fellow Republicans.

The Senate voted Tuesday to raise the government's debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from its spending, finally ending a fractious partisan battle just hours before the government's borrowing authority was set to run out. The bill, which passed 74 to 26 after a short debate devoid of the oratorical passion that had echoed through both chamb...

But scanning a table of house-made pickles, spicy shrimp cocktail sauce and three sugar cream pies from Indiana to feed fellow Republicans.

The Senate voted Tuesday to raise the government's debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from its spending, finally ending a fractious partisan battle just hours before the government's borrowing authority was set to run out. The bill, which passed 74 to 26 after a short debate devoid of the oratorical passion that had echoed through both chamb...