Con­gress has one more week in ses­sion to avert a gov­ern­ment shut­down

Congress has one more week in session to avert a government shutdown

House law­mak­ers are back on Capi­tol Hill Mon­day after­noon to begin their final week in ses­sion before Elec­tion Day – and a pos­si­ble par­tial gov­ern­ment shutdown.Congress has just five days to find an agree­ment on fund­ing the gov­ern­ment at the start of the new fis­cal year on Oct. 1. If no deal can pass the Repub­li­can-held House and Demo­c­rat-con­trolled Sen­ate by then, thou­sands of fed­er­al employ­ees could be fur­loughed and mul­ti­ple gov­ern­ment pro­grams tem­porar­i­ly shuttered.Both Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats agree that some sort of short-term …