Number: RL34700
Title: Interim Continuing Resolutions (CRs): Potential Impacts on Agency Operations
Authors: Clinton T. Brass, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: This report analyzes potential impacts that interim CRs might have on agency operations. CRs have become commonplace in the federal budget process, with CRs occurring in some form in all but 3 years out of a 57-year period from FY1952-FY2008. However, studies of the impacts of interim CRs are quite limited aside from anecdotal accounts. Furthermore, interim CRs are formulated differently from time to time, and may affect highly diverse agencies and programs in varying ways. Without in-depth analysis of specific circumstances, therefore, it may be difficult, or in many cases impossible, to make generalizable statements about the impacts of interim CRs on particular agencies at particular times.
Pages: 15
Date: October 6, 2008