Senate Approves $60B For Hurricane Sandy Relief

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The Hill has this story. Excerpts:

The Senate passed the emergency-spending bill for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts on Friday night. 

The 61-33 vote came after the Senate worked all day Friday on amendments to H.R. 1, a vehicle to provide $60.4 billion to storm recovery efforts. 

Republican Sens. Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dean Heller (Nev.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), David Vitter (La.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.) voted with Democrats for final passage of the measure.

Some conservatives said the bill still contained unnecessary spending measures during a time when lawmakers are trying to make spending cuts. 

Hawaii Sens. Dan Akaka and Brian Schatz voted with the majority.

—Chad Blair

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