Scheduling

The House and Senate agreed on an adjournment resolution on Monday.

The Senate starts at 9 a.m. and will spend the day voting on several amendments — perhaps dozens and dozens of them — to the Democratic budget plan for 2014.

The voting will start at 11 a.m. with a series of six amendments, from:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that the Senate would begin votes while it continues debating the resolution.

After today, people who like writing about government shutdowns will have to look for something else to do.

The House meets at 9 a.m., and will take up the Senate-passed version of the 2013 continuing resolution. The Senate was able to shift gears Wednesday and quickly approve the bill, with some amendments that the House will not have trouble accepting.

After more than five hours of debate on the budget resolution, the Senate adjourned Wednesday night.

The Senate will resume debate on the budget at 9 a.m. on Thursday and will continue for another 34 hours of debate since 50 hours is required unless an agreement to yield back time is reached.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced that senators are working on a deal to pass the continued spending resolution by the end of Wednesday.

Some Republican senators have been holding up final passage of the bill because they want votes on their amendments.

The Senate meets at 9:30 a.m., and by the early afternoon will hold a series of votes that could allow senators to complete work on the 2013 spending bill by Thursday.

At 11:15 a.m., the Senate will vote on one amendment from Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to shift $60 million in defense funding from a biofuels program to Department of Defense operations. The second vote will be on a bipartisan substitute amendment to the House-passed bill, H.R. 933.

Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) scheduled a cloture vote on the continued spending resolution for Wednesday morning.

Around 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday the Senate will hold three votes to advance the Senate continued spending resolution, negotiated by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and ranking member Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), which sets the same spending levels as a government funding measure approved by the House earlier this month. 

The Senate meets again Tuesday in the hopes of finding a quick way forward on the 2013 spending bill, while the House plans to start on the GOP's 2014 budget.

Senators left Monday with no agreement on amendments to the 2013 spending bill, which forced Democrats to file a motion to end debate on the spending bill. Without a deal on amendments, that could mean the Senate votes on the cloture motion on Wednesday.

The Senate meets at 2 p.m., and is hoping to be in a position to advance the 2013 continuing spending bill by the end of the day.

Democratic leaders said last week that at 5:30 p.m. today, the Senate would either start holding votes on a series of agreed amendments to the bill, or vote to end debate on the measure to wrap it up quickly.