The measure, which passed by a 318-109 vote, provides funding until the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30 and averts the possibility of a government shut down when the previous temporary budget runs out on March 27.

Hanabusa was among 82 Democrats who voted against a measure that was passed by the Democratic Senate, but keeps in place federal sequestration cuts for now. The measure does give the Department of Defense additional flexibility to ease some of the impacts of the cuts, but Hanabusa has said it still decreases funding that could impact defense-dependant Hawaii.

Gabbard supported the House version with sequestration when it was initially sent to the Senate. She had said the maintenance of sequestration was unfortunate but it avoided a shutdown.

Democrats, though, are hoping to removed sequestration in the full fiscal year 2014 budget. Both Hanabusa and Gabbard voted against the Republican House version of the budget, which ends sequestration for defense and cuts everything else deeper than sequestratin.

The measure, proposed by Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, would also bring changes to Medicare and Obamacare.

— Kery Murakami