Boehner: CR Needed to Avoid Government Shutdown
By JM Rieger and Matt Fuller
With 16 scheduled legislative days before government funding runs out, Speaker John A. Boehner finally acknowledged Thursday that the House and Senate would need a continuing resolution to fund the federal government. “It’s pretty clear, given the number of days we’re going to be here in September, that we’re going to have to do a CR of some sort,” Boehner said at his weekly news conference. “But no decision has been made about that. We’ll deal with it in September when we get back.” A CR, omnibus — or even “cromnibus” — aren’t out of the ordinary. Though funding the government through appropriations bills is so-called “regular order,” the last time Congress passed all 12 spending bills on time was 1997. Read more.