Federal Funding Gaps: A Brief Overview


 

Publication Date: September 2008

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Banking and finance

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The routine activities of most federal agencies are funded annually by one or more of the 13 regular appropriations bills. When action on the regular appropriations bills is delayed, a continuing resolution (CR) is used to provide interim funding. During the past 48 years, CRs have been enacted for all but four fiscal years (FY1953, 1989, 1995, and 1997). For some fiscal years, a series of as many as six CRs have been enacted.