With the deadline to pass a federal funding bill in the offing, Congress is revisiting a strategy employed in 2014 that kept the government open.A week from today (28 April), the federal government runs out of money. The short-term funding bill passed at the end of last year set the date for when a new funding bill must be passed by Congress. In Washington-speak, the legislation that Congress is now working on is being referred to as the “CRomnibus,” a combination of two types of appropriations measures known as an omnibus and a continuing resolution (CR).Under regular order in Congress, there are 12 appropriations bills, which are all passed separately by each chamber and then subject to a joint House-Senate conference committee before fin...

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