Congress avoided a funding showdown and a government shutdown and even approved some sequester relief for meat inspectors. The House voted 318 to 109 in a largely bipartisan vote to accept Senate-amended stop-gap funding to cover the rest of the fiscal year - averting a March 27th government shutdown. National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson says a Senate amendment by Missouri’s Roy Blunt and Mark Pryor of Arkansas may have ended 92-hundred FSIS meat inspector, lab tech and other furloughs under sequestration