Congress Averts Midnight Shutdown

Shortly before 8pm. Thursday evening the President signed into law the "clean” bipartisan continuing resolution funding the Federal Government until December 8th. Although avoiding a bushel load of inconvenience and unintended consequences this action is simply kicking the can down the road. The next hurdle will be to raise the debt ceiling before a potential default possibly on October 18th according to the calculations by Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen.

Let us hope mature leadership in the House and Senate will avoid a repetition of the brinkmanship and intractable grandstanding that has infected our body politic.