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“with government funding set to expire tomorrow, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution yesterday to fund the government through December 20. It is now up to the Senate to pass the continuing resolution without much fuss and send it to the President's desk before the deadline. As the Republican leader and I work to set the time for that vote, we must look ahead. The continuing resolution will give appropriators additional time to get a bipartisan appropriations process back on track before the end of the year. The Senate has been able to process several noncontroversial appropriations bills, bipartisan, but several more can't move forward until the Democrats and the Republicans both all agree on the allocations. You can't do it with one party. That leads to trouble. In recent days, we have made some progress, and I hope the talks between both sets of appropriators--House and Senate, Democratic and Republican--will continue in good faith and in earnest after we finish the continuing resolution. At the same time, there are several very important issues the Democrats are trying to address in the continuing resolution that the Senate Republicans refuse to address.…”