Troop pay is no longer in jeopardy after Congress approved legislation early Saturday to keep the government funded through mid-March and prevent a holiday season government shutdown. Passage of the bill in the Senate came right up to the precipice of a shutdown heightening anxiety that service members could miss paychecks due to them at the end of the month at a time when financial stressors could be adding up because of the holidays. With the stopgap spending measure approved by the Senate