House Passes FDA Funding Bill, But Not Expected To Go Anywhere-thegraysheet: The short-term FDA funding bill, approved 235-162 by the House on Oct. 7, is one of a series of agency-by-agency continuing resolutions and other “mini CRs” that House Republicans have brought forward during the ongoing partial government shutdown. President Obama and Senate Democratic leadership have repeatedly insisted that they will only accept a continuing resolution that funds the entire government, and that does not contain any provisions to rollback or delay portions of the Affordable Care Act.
