Existing policies were not impacted by the lapse in Congressional authorization and continue uninterrupted".
Both were left out of the current deal, although a Democratic aide noted the Violence Against Women Act would not be impacted by the lapse because the grants underwriting the law were funded.
Burwell, as President Obama did repeatedly Monday, urged Congress to pass short-term legislation that would extend the funding for the remainder of the fiscal year and "restore the operation of critical public services and programs that will be impacted by a lapse in appropriations".
He then made it a focus of his weekly White House radio address, while the Council of Economic Advisers put out a state-by-state report on the impact a lapse would bring.
The commssion was set up to influence the Environment Agency's proposals for flood risk management in the Severn Estuary, following local anger at initial proposals that proposed letting some flood defences lapse to compensate for the impact of rising sea levels on salt marshes.
Total 1996-97 savings on vacant posts amounted to some US$40 million, of which some US$12.5 million resulted from the impact of the lapse factor methodology applied to the costing of the PWB.
This lapse, however, does not diminish the impact of the production, which leavens its bitterness with some hard-won redemption.
"It's just too important to keeping crime down in the city to let it lapse," the mayor said of Operation Impact.
"A lapse... would have a major impact on Americans across the country".
If the House took up a short-term extension immediately upon their return, aides said, any lapse at midnight would have little real-world impact.
But Republicans argued that the previous ban, which was allowed to lapse in 2004 later under the Bush administration, made no impact.
