
The Senate will vote on whether to support a seven-week long continuing resolution by the end of this week, the chamber’s senior Republican leader said Sept. 23. Congress has just one week to pass a CR to keep funding the government at fiscal year 2019 levels before the Sept. 30 deadline, and the Senate will vote on the House-passed CR bill to continue negotiations on appropriations bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor Monday. "Before…