Sentence examples for stopgap resolution from inspiring English sources

But they may threaten to take it out of the next stopgap resolution, due Dec. 3, if the Senate does not act on the treaty.

(The stopgap resolution that currently pays for the government runs out at the end of March, and if Republicans think they can use the debt ceiling as a cudgel in that fight, they will find a solid wall of opposition).

And it is not a moment too soon because when the stopgap resolution that is financing the government expires on March 4, the House will have significant leverage to get its way.

The only other change to the resolution that Senate Democrats will try to make is to limit the duration of the stopgap resolution to mid-November, hoping to use the next six weeks to negotiate a more responsible budget.

A government forced to live hand-to-mouth, funded by stopgap resolutions for a few weeks at a time, hardly looks like one that can calmly negotiate the radical overhaul of the American state that is needed.Stop the play-actingBoth sides must shoulder some of the blame for the steadily worsening atmosphere on Capitol Hill.

By defying their leaders and opposing last week's stopgap "continuing resolution," 54 House Republicans signaled that unease.

And the stopgap continuing resolution keeps NASA's spending levels — and programs, including Constellation — unchanged until after the election in November.

Because Congress will again fail to enact its spending bills on time, the government will run out of operating money Oct. 1 unless lawmakers approve a stopgap "continuing resolution" — or C.R. — to keep the money flowing.

Democrats included money for the first year of a 10-year modernization program in the stopgap spending resolution that is now keeping the government operating, virtually the only spending increase included in the measure.

On Wednesday, by a 267-to-151 vote, the House approved a stopgap spending resolution to keep the government running for the last half of the fiscal year, replacing the one that expires on March 27.

Congress, unable to pass any of the necessary 12 appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started on October 1st, is relying on a stopgap "continuing resolution" that funds the government at existing levels, but only until December 3rd.