
The leaders of the House and Senate have each announced plans to buy time for Congress to move through the fiscal year 2020 appropriations process by passing a continuing resolution, but the chambers each have their own proposed process. The Senate will move quickly to pass as many regular appropriations bills as possible, and then pass a “temporary continuing resolution” for any outstanding bills to keep those parts of government open, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in his…