Most of the operations of federal departments and agencies are funded each year through the enactment of several regular appropriations acts. Since these bills are annual, expiring at the end of the fiscal year, regular bills for the subsequent fiscal year must be enacted by October 1st. Final action on some of the regular appropriations bills, however, are typically delayed beyond the deadline. When this occurs, the affected departments and agencies are generally funded under temporary continuing appropriations acts or resolutions until the final funding decisions become law. Because congressional and presidential action on all 12 of the FY 2008 …
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Most of the operations of federal departments and agencies are funded each year through the enactment of several regular appropriations acts. Since these bills are annual, expiring at the end of the fiscal year, regular bills for the subsequent fiscal year must be enacted by October 1st. Final action on some of the regular appropriations bills, however, are typically delayed beyond the deadline. When this occurs, the affected departments and agencies are generally funded under temporary continuing appropriations acts or resolutions until the final funding decisions become law. Because congressional and presidential action on all 12 of the FY 2008 regular appropriations measures were not completed until almost three months after the state of the fiscal year, Congress adopted and the President signed four continuing resolutions that sequentially extended funding for the outstanding bills from October 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007.
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Streeter, Sandy.Continuing Resolutions: FY2008 Action and Brief Overview of Recent Practices,
report,
January 9, 2008;
Washington D.C..
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc818157/:
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