As Congress struggles, yet again, to pass a funding extension to head off a government shutdown this fall, House appropriators took some time Wednesday to think about other ways of doing business. For more than three hours, the Appropriations Committee debated the merits of tweaking the budget process in an effort to take shutdowns off […]
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Lankford proposal would provide automatic stopgap spending measures before a funding lapse
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is seeking automatic funding extensions to avoid government shutdowns. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Posted July 22, 2026 at 5:10pm
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