That is why new grants are so vulnerable as the government lurches from continuing resolution to continuing resolution.
The problem is there's never any payoff, unless you count a continuing resolution as closure.
By defying their leaders and opposing last week's stopgap "continuing resolution," 54 House Republicans signaled that unease.
stands for "continuing resolution," the stopgap spending measure that would reopen the government as soon as it passes the House.
"We are disappointed that today's short-term continuing resolution did not contain increased funding" for the upgrade, Ms. Eldridge said.
October 15, 2013 (#ff @JohnJHarwood) Updated at 10.26pm BST 10.05pm BST Here it is, a draft of the continuing resolution the House plans to vote on.
In fact, with the exception of three fiscal years — 1989, 1995 and 1997 — at least one continuing resolution has been enacted for each fiscal year since 1954".
As described by Senate negotiators, the deal would immediately end the shutdown with a continuing resolution paying for government operations through Jan . 15
And the stopgap continuing resolution keeps NASA's spending levels — and programs, including Constellation — unchanged until after the election in November.
That's a drop of $1 million from the current funding established under the continuing resolution.
The original continuing resolution would have cut funding for BER from $558 million in fiscal year 2010 to $302 million in 2011.
