With only about six weeks left in the fiscal year -- and the lawmakers on a one-week recess -- time is running out to close this year's gap.
But Mr. Feehery said nothing would happen before the House left for a one-week recess, on Friday or Saturday.
After the vote, members fled for the airports to begin a one-week recess, during which they will face the verdict of their constituents on their role in one of the most contentious fiscal policy battles of the 112th Congress.
The developments came as Congress prepared for a one-week recess and a new battle for public opinion.
Thursday's measure, which House Republicans rushed to the floor before a one-week recess begins, passed 228 to 192 ; all the Democrats who were there and seven Republicans voted against it and one Republican, Representative Justin Amash, voted present.
While the House legislation has little chance of becoming law in its current form, the bill — the last piece of legislation considered before a one-week recess — was an instructive metaphor for the current state of Congressional politics.
Five Congressional committees hope to approve the legislation next month, and the pace of the advertising has picked up this week, just days before lawmakers return to work from a one-week recess.
In a memorandum to all House Republicans as they went home for a one-week recess, Mr. Armey said he would soon bring legislation to the floor that would give the party the political cover it needed to protect itself from Democratic attacks.
Spring break: a one-week recess from the rigors of exams in which students journey off to a warm, lawless destination--most likely somewhere in Mexico--with the intentions of committing utter debauchery. 1) To return home with badges of honor in the forms of second-degree burns, minimal brains cells, photographic blackmail, and a piercing or tattoo.
The Senate will meet for one week beginning November 14th, but will recess the following week for Thanksgiving break, before reconvening on November 29th.
And if the government could reach a conclusion about the necessity for this legislation one week before the Commons went into recess, it beggars belief that it could not have reached that conclusion three weeks before recess, and thus given parliament proper time to consider this bill".
