The House this month will vote on a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government funded past a Sept. 30 deadline, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Thursday.
Lawmakers have not come to agreement on fiscal 2020 spending bills after the process was delayed over how to set spending caps.
The House, led by Democrats, passed spending legislation, but Senate Republicans decided to wait until the two parties settled on a two-year spending caps deal reached earlier this summer.
Hoyer blamed Senate Republicans for failing to take up any appropriations measures but it was unlikely lawmakers would have escaped the need for a temporary funding measure, or continuing resolution.
“As we wait for them to complete their work so that we can begin conference negotiations, a continuing resolution will be necessary to prevent another government shutdown like the one we experienced earlier this year, which harmed thousands of American families,” Hoyer said in a memo to Democrats.
Senate lawmakers are slated to begin considering appropriations bills beginning next week.
Hoyer, in the memo to Democrats, said the House “could consider” additional gun control legislation in the fall.
The House Judiciary Committee is slated to consider new proposals, including banning some types of firearms and ammunition, following a string of mass shootings over the summer.
The House passed a bill expanding background checks in February and is urging Senate Republicans to bring it to the floor.
The Senate GOP majority is more likely to consider a bipartisan Senate-authored bill to address gun control, if it considers any legislation at all.
