Interim Continuing Resolutions (CRs): Potential Impacts on Agency Operations

This report analyzes potential impacts that interim CRs might have on agency operations. CRs have become commonplace in the federal budget process, with CRs occurring in some form in all but 3 years out of a 58-year period from FY1952 to FY2009. However, studies of the impacts of interim CRs are quite limited aside from anecdotal accounts. Furthermore, interim CRs are formulated differently from time to time, and may affect highly diverse agencies and programs in varying ways. Without in-depth analysis of specific circumstances, therefore, it may be difficult, or in many cases impossible, to make generalizable statements about the impacts of interim CRs on particular agencies at particular times. It is possible, however, to identify some potential impacts of interim CRs prospectively, utilizing several approaches. This report uses three. First, the report discusses how an interim CR's provisions and requirements may impact directly upon an agency, based on what an interim CR explicitly is formulated to do. Second, the report analyzes Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and agency documents that have provided guidance or requirements for how an agency should navigate through periods of interim CRs. The existence and emphases of such documents may suggest the occurrence, or at least the risk of occurrence, of interim CR-related impacts on the operations of agencies. Third, the report analyzes brief mentions of claims of impact contained in Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports from the last 20 years, typically made by agency officials without independent GAO validation.


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