The House passed legislation Wednesday that would fund the federal government through Nov. 16, after adopting an amendment condemning a controversial antiwar advertisement by the liberal group Moveon.org.

The vote on the continuing resolution (H J Res 52) was 404 to 14. The legislation would keep funds flowing to all federal agencies for seven weeks at fiscal 2007 levels while Congress negotiates with President Bush over the 12 regular fiscal 2008 spending bills.

The Senate will vote on the measure this week as well, but it is not clear when.

House Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis., again urged Bush to start negotiating with Democratic leaders instead of repeating his threat to veto the bills because they exceed his aggregate spending request.

“I would hope we could shorten the process and sit down with the administration now and compromise so we don’t need to keep on defining our differences,” Obey said.

Republicans prevailed by 341-79 on their motion to recommit the bill and amend it with non-binding language praising Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and condemning MoveOn.org for an advertisement in the New York Times on Sept. 10 that referred to him as “Gen. “Betrayus.”

Republicans have been making political hay of the ad and have tried to force Democrats to distance themselves from the liberal group, whose supporters overwhelmingly back Democrats at the polls. The Senate adopted a similar sense of the Senate resolution, 72-25, on Sept. 20.