Road Map: Passing Appropriations This Year Gets Trickier

• By Emily Pierce
• Roll Call Staff
• July 28, 2009, Midnight

What’s another missed deadline among friends?
Congressional Democrats have already given themselves a little more time to fight it out on health care. So it probably won’t surprise anyone when they blow past the Oct. 1 cutoff date for funding the federal government, having sent only a handful of spending bills to the president’s desk.