US Legislators have already passed one continuance this year, and it looks like they may need another.

US Senator Chuck Grassley tells Raccoon Valley Radio that now that the House of Representatives has a Speaker, they’ll be playing catch up with moving bills forward.

“The House might pass all their 12 appropriation bills, but they won’t get through the Senate. The Senate has only passed three or four, and they won’t be out of conference. So I think that means we’ll pass another continuing resolution, that the only dispute is, will it go until a few days before Christmas or will it go to January 15th?”

Grassley mentions that during the time frame of the continuation, it is assumed that all appropriations bills from both the House and Senate will be passed. He adds that even if there hadn’t been a slow down from the search for a Speaker of the House, the arguably biggest bill that needs passed, the Farm Bill, wouldn’t have gotten a new five year version, but a one year extension. Grassley says this isn’t uncommon though, as many of the previous Farm Bills have had to be given a one year extension.