Congress averts a shutdown

1. CRomnishambles, the morning after

• The compromise spending package House and Senate negotiators worked out — best known as the "CRomnibus" — passed the House last night.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• It also quietly passed a stopgap through next Wednesday, giving the Senate until then to approve the deal.

  [Politico / Burgess Everett and Manu Raju]

• A number of Senators — including Bernie Sanders, John McCain, Elizabeth Warren, Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, David Vitter, and Rand Paul — are fighting it, but it's expected to pass relatively easily.

• Warren's role whipping opposition to the package has been likened to Ted Cruz's role in last year's shutdown, but there's one reason the analogy doesn't really work.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• The provisions in the CRomnibus dealing with Obamacare represent one of the first bipartisan efforts to fix and tweak the law.

  [Vox / Sarah Kliff]

• JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon personally lobbied Representatives to vote for the package, which repealed a financial regulation affecting JPMorgan.

  [Washington Post / Steve Mufson and Tom Hamburger]

• Democrats did secure additional funding for financial regulators, even as the underlying regulations were weakened.

  [Mother Jones / Kevin Drum]

• A nice breakdown of the groups in the House voting for and against the deal.

  [Roll Call / Matt Fuller and Emma Dumain]

• Ultimately, the CRomnibus passed because Democrats felt they had no good alternative.

  [Vox / Ezra Klein]

2. Misc.

• In light of its still-raging Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone is banning Christmas celebrations.

  [USA Today / Katharine Lackey]

• An MIT physicist has developed an equation that might explain how life emerged from lifeless matter.

  [Quanta Magazine / Natalie Wolchover]

• A time capsule buried in Boston by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in 1795 has been uncovered.

  [CNN / Todd Leopold and Kevin Conlon]

• There's a shoe with an "auto-lacing" system on Kickstarter.

  [Frederick Labbe & The Powerteam]

• What it's like to be in love with someone with schizophrenia.

  [The New Inquiry / Hannah Black]

• A rundown of stuff on the internet this week that turned out to be fake.

  [Washington Post / Caitlin Dewey]

3. Verbatim

• "The Sun involves a special type of fire that is able to 'burn' water, and so it will just get hotter, and six times brighter."

  [Steve Harris via Jason Kottke]

• "A fixation on evil abroad rendered invisible the most egregious abuses of government powers at home."

  [NYMag / Jonathan Chait]

• "We are going to learn about every bad friend you have."

  [Joanne Jaffe to The Verge / Ben Popper]

• "The share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent."

  [NYT / Binyamin Appelbaum]

• "If I was a voter and there’s a global referendum about CO2 policies, I would vote for really very stringent controls on CO2. At the same time, I would move forward with solar geoengineering."

  [David Keith to Re/code / James Temple]

• "The 46 Democratic caucus members in the 114th Congress received a total of 67.8 million votes in winning their seats, while the 54 Republican caucus members received 47.1 million votes."

  [FairVote / Nathan Nicholson]

• "Publicizing areas where gay men hang out will most probably increase the numbers of attacks and murders."

  [San Francisco Chronicle letter to the editor via The Awl / Elon Green]

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