House and Senate leaders have reached a deal to keep federal agencies running into next year, sources say, a move that would avoid a partisan government shutdown fight before the November elections.
While the funding levels could anger some tea party conservatives who have called for deeper cuts in federal spending, many Republicans are eager to head off a contentious budget fight on the eve of a presidential election and would rather punt the issue into next year, hoping Mitt Romney will be in the White House.
Amazing, any other job in the country, if you do not do your job you go away. In Congress instead of doing thier jobs and getting the budget done, they just push it off for 6 months, not worry about it and "the wheels go round and round." They should all lose a days pay until it is done and passed.
