Change in House Plans May Force Senate Delays

Politico: “There is some movement in the House as of Friday morning — the latest plan is to break up the deal into three different pieces, including government funding, disaster relief and farm aid. If the bills come as three individual pieces to the Senate, it could be a difficult lift to get individual time agreements on all three bills, since any one senator could object. If the House wraps up the bills into one package before sending it over, it would only require one-time agreement.”

“Without a time agreement, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would have to wait days before he could get a passage vote. And if the bill is wrapped together in the Senate and not in the House, it would have to go back to the House and be approved before heading to the president’s desk. There’s no guarantee House lawmakers will stick around if they manage to clear something through their chamber.”