CHARLESTON — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Senate Republican majority leadership are pushing for their Democratic colleagues to support a clean short-term bill to keep the government funded past an end-of-September deadline.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 216-210 Wednesday to advance a rule for a short-term continuing resolution – the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act – to keep the federal government funded through Black Friday, Nov. 21. Both U.S. Reps. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., and Riley Moore, R-W.Va., voted for the resolution.

The bill includes no new funding requests or budget cuts, making it a clean continuing resolution. The short-term measure is meant to keep the federal government funded at current levels through the start of the new federal fiscal year begi

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