Here comes the next big problem for furloughed workers

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8. The Senate passed a retroactive pay bill yesterday

and the House passed their own version of a retroactive pay bill today that is different from the Senate bill - i.e., it seeks to guarantee retroactive pay for this and any future shutdown (so they won't have to keep doing these bills every time there is a shutdown).

This means that the House bill will need to go to the Senate to be amended and/or passed (since there are 2 versions now) and if amended and passed in the Senate, it would need to go back to the House again to amend/vote on... and then back and forth until both chambers pass the identical bill...

The hope is that the Senate will go on and pass the House version and it will be signed into law by the WH but that remains to be seen (due to the scope change of the House bill).