Wall Street Journal (blog) | Congress Passes U.S. Spending Bill to End Oil Export Ban Bloomberg Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that averts a U.S. government shutdown and ends a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports, a plan that ensures fiscal peace in Congress through most of 2016. The Senate passed the bill 65-33 on Friday, ... Tax and Spend: What's Changing on Oil Exports, Obamacare, Visas House, Senate OK Spending Bill, Lift Ban on Oil Exports House passes bill freeing US oil exports, Senate vote next |