Senate May Vote on CR This Weekend
As we told you last week, the House passed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government until September 30, 2011, and we are awaiting action by the Senate. This week the Senate introduced an omnibus appropriations bill as a substitute, but last night Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the Senate would not vote on it because they did not have enough Republican support to pass it. Instead the Senate plans to propose a CR that would be shorter than the one passed in the House.
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