Federal News Radio

Sept. 27, 2011

Even as a Senate vote averted a government shutdown, another fight is already brewing in Congress.
The Senate passed yesterday a six-week continuing resolution that sidestepped a disagreement with the House over disaster aid funding. The House plans to vote Monday on the main bill, which funds the government until Nov. 18.

But the fight in November — over longterm government spending for the rest of the fiscal year — may be just as fierce.

Steve Bell, senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris with his analysis on what is holding up the debate.

Listen to the audio clip here

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Economic Policy Project