(Washington)-Lawmakers are largely ignoring an Obama administration shopping list as they fashion a stopgap spending bill that's needed to avoid a government shutdown Friday.
The Senate could pass the measure as early as Wednesday, after a likely test vote Tuesday, and the House could clear it for President Barack Obama before the budget year ends at midnight Thursday.
To speed the measure through, lawmakers appear to be disregarding administration pleas for add-ons such as $1.9 billion for "Race to the Top" grants to better-performing schools and more than $4billion to finance settlements of long-standing lawsuits by black farmers and American Indians.
A bid to use the measure to keep alive a grant program from last year's economic stimulus bill that many states are using to subsidize hiring of the unemployed also appears unlikely to be added to the measure, known as a continuing resolution, or CR, in Washington-speak.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2022029,00.html
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