Senate Leaders Reach Bipartisan Deal

WASHINGTON—Senate leaders on Wednesday struck an 11th-hour agreement to avoid a U.S. debt crisis and fully reopen the federal government, putting lawmakers on track toward ending a stalemate that worried investors world-wide and provided striking evidence of congressional dysfunction.

House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), in a statement released Wednesday afternoon, said House Republicans will allow the Senate deal to come up for a vote. "Blocking the bipartisan agreement reached today by the members of the Senate will not be a tactic for us," Mr. Boehner said.

He signaled the party hasn't given up on its campaign against the 2010 health-care law, which led to the partial government shutdown on Oct. 1, and added his party will continue to fight for additional spending cuts and against tax increases.

House Rules Chairman Pete Sessions (R., Texas) said passage of the bill was a "foregone conclusion."

"I do expect it to pass," Mr. Sessions said.

this shutdown has really killed any recovery of the economy