continuing resolution

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noun U.S. Politics.

legislation enacted by Congress to allow government operations to continue until the regular appropriations are enacted: used when action on appropriations is not completed by the beginning of a fiscal year.

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How to use continuing resolution in a sentence

Since 2019, they have repeatedly pushed bills that would automatically impose temporary funding measures, known as continuing resolutions, to counter the inability of legislators to pass budgets, their most basic responsibility.
As another shutdown looms, a bipartisan bill would force legislators stay in D.C. to pass a budget|Joe Davidson|September 30, 2021|Washington Post
Still, McConnell appears poised to block any CR that includes an increase to the debt ceiling, though he has said his conference would support a “clean continuing resolution” without the debt ceiling.
Congress’s hectic legislative schedule, briefly explained|Ellen Ioanes|September 26, 2021|Vox
With the federal fiscal year ending September 30, Congress has until then to pass the continuing resolution and prevent a third shutdown in as many years.
Congress’s hectic legislative schedule, briefly explained|Ellen Ioanes|September 26, 2021|Vox
That hike can either pass as a stand-alone bill, as part of a stopgap continuing resolution to keep the lights on, or as part of the massive spending-and-tax bill.
The Republicans want no part of a debt ceiling hike. Good for them.|Hugh Hewitt|September 22, 2021|Washington Post

Congress usually doesn’t pass all its appropriation bills in time, so to avoid a government shutdown, it can and probably will pass a short-term spending bill — known as a continuing resolution — that funds the government at last year’s levels.
What to know about the big budget battles in Congress|Amber Phillips|September 9, 2021|Washington Post
To be sure, Jefferson did share the credit, but not in the way such a resolution might be interpreted.
Forget the Resolutions; Try a Few Declarations|Kevin Bleyer|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.
The World’s Toughest Political Quiz|Jeff Greenfield|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2004, for example, Scalise voted “no” on a resolution to make Martin Luther King Jr.
No. 3 Republican Admits Talking to White Supremacist Conference|Tim Mak|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He went on to say that even such double horrors had never kept cops from continuing on.
Two Cops ‘Assassinated’ in Brooklyn|Michael Daly|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I want to bring this to your kind attention with the hope that you will help me secure an unbiased resolution.
An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike|IranWire|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Ulm was only the commencement of the campaign, and even after Austerlitz Napoleon pursued the enemy with grim resolution.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
During resolution the sputum assumes the appearance of that of chronic bronchitis.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Again, he put off his resolution: but still the impulse suggested to him, Go to London; and at length he did so.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
In pursuance of his generous resolution, he communicated his designs to Allcraft.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
When he had finished speaking, he commanded him to withdraw for an hour; after which time, he would tell him his resolution.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter