WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved on Sept. 19 to advance a stopgap government funding bill a day after the House failed to pass a Republican bill aimed at averting a shutdown.
Schumer filed cloture on a bill to use as a vehicle to pass a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution. This would allow the Senate to immediately pass a bill after it had already gone through the chamber’s procedures for passing legislation.
