While some lawmakers appear to be optimistic about finishing appropriations before thanksgiving, many observers are not encouraged.

GOP Friction Fouls Action on Agencies' Funding As Turkey-Dinner Time and Adjournment Near (washingtonpost.com)

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Many of the 13 annual bills needed to fund government departments and agencies through next September are hung up in money and policy wrangles, forcing much of the federal establishment to operate under temporary measures known as "continuing resolutions."

Democrats are on the fringes of these battles. The disputes are mainly between Republicans in the House and Senate, or in some cases between the White House and GOP lawmakers.

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Only three of the 13 bills have been signed into law. A fourth is on its way to the White House. The nine others are at various points of the legislative pipeline.

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The heated topic, sources said, was the possibility of an end-of-session "omnibus" appropriations bill that would wrap all the unfinished bills into one mammoth package. Congress would vote on the measure with no opportunity for amendments.

GOP leaders like the idea because, in close consultation with the administration, they could simply take charge of the process, impose their solutions and then challenge their members to vote against a huge bill stuffed with money for local community projects, road building, schools, waterways and harbors.

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