Politics

The vote is a victory for President Obama as Republicans had wanted to strip funding for the president's executive actions on immigration from the bill.

The reaction to the Israeli prime minister's speech on Iran to a joint meeting of Congress is, so far, along partisan lines. In Israel, too, reaction is mixed. Iran calls it "boring and repetitive."

The arrangement circumvented a process that could have automatically preserved Clinton's email communications in government archives.

The White House, which was not informed of the invitation, called it a departure from diplomatic protocol. House Speaker John Boehner said, "Congress can make this decision on its own."

A White House spokeswoman, said the U.S. wanted "to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election." Israel's election is March 17. Netanyahu is due to address Congress March 3.

Secretary of State John Kerry questioned the Israeli leader's "judgment" on talks with Iran. Earlier, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Netanyahu's address to Congress was hurting relations.