text: What we have is a broken budget process.  Lurching from short term funding bill, to stop gap measure months into a fiscal year is no way to manage a government.  Ideological issues aside, day-to-day Congressional business is broken and needs serious lawmaking to be repaired.  The Appropriations Committees were once in charge of a lot of the Congressional calendar.  Now, everything seems to be run by leadership and run through the Rules Committee - regular order bypassed. The shutdown crisis is a result of that broken process.  That said, why can't House leadership bring up a clean stop-gap measure to allow more time to deliberate on bread and butter issues?  A clean Continuing Resolution (CR) would get big bipartisan votes and pass in just a few hours. I will vote for a clean CR.