Congress Daily ($) reported this afternoon that Congressional GOP leaders appear close to an agreement to extend the FY2007 Continuing Resolution (CR, discussed here, and here) until next Feb. 15. Aware that the longer the CR is extended (for reasons discussed here), the greater the likelihood that images of low-income housing assistance recipients out on the streets or schoolchildren going without breakfast and lunch would start playing out in the media: GOP leaders and the White House are considering interim adjustments to soften the CR's impact on agencies that would be funded at lower stopgap funding levels. But appropriators argue such "anomalies" are no substitute for the certainty provided by enactment of agencies' annual spending bills. Oh, those annoying anomalies!