When Congress is unable to complete work on an appropriations bill by the beginning of a fiscal year (FY) -- October 1 -- it passes what is called a continuing resolution that allows the agencies involved to continue spending at the same rate until an appropriations bill is passed.
Take a look at the status of the appropriations bills for FY 2010 which begins in 16 days. Social Security is covered by the Labor-HHS bill. It does not seem likely that all of these bills will be passed by the end of the month. Continuing resolutions hamstring agencies. They make planning difficult.
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Some time back, you indicated the provisions for attorney Title XVI withholding and eligible nonattorney withholding were going to sunset at the end of the current fiscal year. My question is: will these provisions still be in effect after 9/30/2009 with a CR, and will they last until Congress enacts a new Labor-HHS bill?
Well if they would stop screwing around with the health care BS and work on what really needs to be done there wouldn't be a CR.
Democrat president and they control both houses of Congress, so I wonder how media is going to spin this as the Republican's fault.
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