New York's Legislature has approved an emergency spending bill that includes one-day-a-week furloughs for 100,000 state workers.

Republicans responded by asking that earmarks be banned across the board.

The House approved a measure that would raise the cap on federal borrowing to $14.3 trillion. The statutory limit on public debt is now $12.104 trillion.

President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the House Wednesday muscled through a year-end plan to create jobs, mixing about $50 billion for public works projects with another sum of nearly $50 billion for cash-strapped state and local governments.

Congress has a full schedule before taking a holiday break.