The government shutdown is dead. Obamacare is alive.

The Senate voted 81 to 18 Wednesday night to reopen the federal government and raise the nation's borrowing limit, hours before the Treasury Department faced the possibility of being unable to pay all of America's bills for the first time in modern history.

The House followed suit, voting 285-144, to end the latest damaging battle of divided government in a polarized Congress.

President Barack Obama said he would reopen the government immediately to "lift this cloud of uncertainty and unease" that settled on the nation and start fixing the damage.

"There is a lot of work ahead of us, including our need to earn back the trust of the American people that has been lost over the last few weeks," Obama said in a brief speech at the White House.

滬江英語(yǔ)快訊：美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)參議院16日晚投票通過(guò)議案，給予聯(lián)邦政府臨時(shí)撥款，同時(shí)調(diào)高其公共債務(wù)上限。如果這項(xiàng)法案得到國(guó)會(huì)眾議院投票通過(guò)并獲總統(tǒng)奧巴馬簽署，美國(guó)聯(lián)邦政府非核心部門(mén)的關(guān)門(mén)風(fēng)波可告結(jié)束。

參議院當(dāng)天以81票贊成、18票反對(duì)的投票結(jié)果批準(zhǔn)了議案。根據(jù)這一議案，聯(lián)邦政府各部門(mén)將獲得預(yù)算運(yùn)營(yíng)到2014年1月15日，同時(shí)把財(cái)政部發(fā)行國(guó)債的權(quán)限延長(zhǎng)至2014年2月7日。