Congress has considered adopting automatic continuing appropriations reforms.
Instead, the state is being run by court orders, decrees and continuing appropriations.
"We do have some possibility, I guess, in whatever is done as a continuing appropriations bill in January," he said.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has more than once introduced the End Government Shutdowns Act, which would implement a form of automatic continuing appropriations.
In 1999, 164 House Republicans voted to enact an automatic continuing appropriations provision, but they were joined by only eight of their Democratic colleagues and the bill failed.
On four separate occasions, the debt limit was inserted in continuing appropriations measures, each containing billions of dollars in additional federal expenditures.
Here's the bill's official title: "Making continuing appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes".
"Discussions on length and content of a continuing appropriations resolution are ongoing," Stephen Worley, a Republican spokesman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, told HuffPost Monday.
Following the shutdown, DFL Representative Phyllis Kahn authored a continuing appropriations bill that would prevent government shutdowns in the event of disagreements between the governor and legislature, as she had done in several past sessions.
As your veto statement said, the bill you vetoed, a continuing appropriations bill, was rendered unnecessary because of the enactment of a defense appropriations bill signed into law on December 19.
