Continuing Resolutions

Judge Vince Chhabria kept Congress's ban on reprogramming money for relocations and struck the committee-approval escape hatch, so the Forest Service's Salt Lake City move now needs an act of Congress. The Dec. 11 stopgap is the first bill that could renew or lift it.

The House and Senate funded the government a month early this year, but the fix was the same one Congress has used 141 times since 1998: a continuing resolution, not a budget.