Reporter’s Notebook: Congress dodged a fall shutdown, but the real fight looms
"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall…" – Oscar WildeCongress certainly collapsed into fall this year. It lacked the usual mayhem of an imminent government shutdown for the first time in years. The government is usually only funded through September 30, the end of the federal fiscal year. Lawmakers solved that fiscal riddle early.So the beginning of fall in Congress is usually anything but enjoyable. Others are devouring cobbler, […]
