Nine days! Nine days for what you might ask? The
House of Representatives is scheduled to be in session for only
nine days before the end of the fiscal year. The Senate is
not exactly overlapping the House and they have scheduled 16 days
in session scheduled.
As a refresher, by the end of the fiscal year, September 30th,
the House and Senate are supposed to have passed their versions of
a budget, reconciled the differences, and sent allocations to the
Appropriations Committees. The Appropriations
Committees and their subcommittees then drafts bills (12 of them)
funding government programs, send them to the House and Senate
floors, pass them, reconcile any differences, send those reconciled
bills back to the House and Senate floors, pass them, and then
hopefully the President signs them.
