Still No House/Senate Agreement on Funding Bill, Gov't Shutdown Looms
On September 22, 2011, the House passed an amended version of H.R. 26081, to provide further continuing appropriations for discretionary government operations. Affected government operations and services are slated to shut down after September 30, 2011 unless continuing appropriations legislation is enacted. (The House is not scheduled to be in session for the week of September 26, 2011, but there will be a couple of pro forma sessions during the week).
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On September 23, 2011, the Senate began its consideration of House-passed H.R. 2608 and is scheduled to consider its amendment to the House-amended version of H.R. 2608 on September 26, 2011. (Although the Senate was scheduled to begin its own week-long break on September 26, 2011, it is scheduled to be in session on September 26, 2011.)
1The bill was an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 2608, which was originally approved in the House as the Small Business Program Extension and Reform Act of 2011.