Monday, July 11, 2016

With spending bills stalled, focus turns to avoiding a shutdown fight this fall

With spending bills stalled, focus turns to avoiding a shutdown fight this fall-washingtonpost: Any chance Congress had this year of smoothly completing work on its annual spending bills is now all but dead, leaving Republican leaders to grapple with how to avoid a contentious fight in the weeks before the election over how to avoid the threat of a government shutdown.