Government Continuing Resolution March 2024. The stopgap spending bill, called a continuing resolution, or cr, is intended to give lawmakers in both chambers time to draft and vote on a full slate of annual spending, or appropriations. House and senate passed a bipartisan continuing resolution (cr) to extend current federal appropriations to avoid a partial.
This division is known as a continuing resolution (cr) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise. Extension of continuing appropriations act, 2024.