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Lawmakers Strike Deal on Children’s Insurance

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the top Democrat on the panel announced on Tuesday night that they had reached agreement on a plan to prevent the imminent exhaustion of federal funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The current appropriation runs out at the end of this month, and many states will exhaust their allotments of federal money later this year or early next year.