Most recent budget resolution FY 2008 was part of Defense spending conference report

According to the continuing budget resolution (CBR) passed on Sept. 27, 2007 the government would shut down at midnight tonight unless Congress enacted all of the necessary budgets or unless it passed another CBR.

Unable to find that Congress passed such a CBR, I was seriously pondering a government shutdown until I read that a CBR continuing to fund the government for another month (until Dec. 14, 2007) was tucked away in the only appropriations bill that our government has managed to make law this year, the Defense Department Appropriations Bill FY 2008. More specifically, the CBR was slipped into the Defense '08 conference report. The Senate agreed to the conference report in a voice vote on November 8, 2007.

In summary, Congress passed a continuing budget resolution for FY 2008 by attaching the budget resolution to the Defense FY 2008 appropriations conference report, which President Bush signed into law on November 13, 2007. The resolution continues to fund the government until December 14, 2007.