Days when Congress...
is in session
has an important deadline
is not in session due to weekends, holidays or district time
As of today, , Congress has:
legislative days
until a spending bill must be passed. Otherwise, the government shuts down at midnight on Dec. 11, a day with no votes scheduled
While a deal passed in late October settled the fight over how much the government should spend on domestic and military programs, there is still work to be completed on how that funding should be divvied up among agencies and federal programs.
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How previous deadlines were resolved:
Congress passed short-term extensions to the National Highway Trust Fund before it ran out of money on Oct. 29
The federal fund that helps pay for roads, bridges and rail projects has been bordering on bankruptcy for the past few years, in part because a national gas tax that fills it up hasn't caught up with inflation in two decades.
Roll Call has a breakdown of how the bill will be finalized.
House Speaker John Boehner retired on Oct. 30.
Boehner's replacement is Paul Ryan. The speaker's resignation cleared the way for passage of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government at the end of September.
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The government faced a debt ceiling on Nov. 3
An agreement passed in late October raised the government debt ceiling until March 2017. Otherwise, the Treasury would have run out of cash by Nov. 3, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said.
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