Ryan, Pelosi chat over steak and fries at Capitol

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the earliest votes planned for next week would take place on Tuesday evening, giving the Senate just over 24 hours to meet the new funding deadline.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – On the day the federal government is due to run out of money, Congress did what it does best – punted the deadline for a few more days to avoid a shutdown.

The House moved toward passage Friday of a short-term spending bill to keep the government running ahead of a midnight deadline. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) has said he would not waive a House rule that requires legislation to be made public effectively two days before the chamber votes on it. Aides and lawmakers said Friday they were hoping to complete the spending legislation on Monday, setting up a Wednesday vote in the House.

“But they have the majority and this is their vehicle”, she said, referring to the Republican House majority.

“There’s a honeymoon period in here”, conservative Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., said of Ryan’s recent ascension to the top House job.

“This is one where we were served up a particular deck of cards, if you will, and we’ve got to play it in order to keep from getting a shutdown”.

Negotiators plan to work through the weekend as they continue to haggle over what policy riders should be attached to the legislation and how to handle a separate package of tax breaks for businesses and individuals that will likely be attached to the bill or moved at the same time.

On Thursday, Pelosi predicted that Republicans will need Democratic votes to pass the spending measure, “so they will have to come to terms to do this”. He said sticking points relate to labor and environmental issues, and to a campaign finance provision pushed by his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to lift certain spending limits by party committees. The bill will give Congress and the administration more time to complete negotiations.

Congress has barred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding research that promotes a position on gun control, and the CDC has limited its efforts in the area to compiling data on firearm injuries, rather than studying the effect of gun-control laws.

The stopgap spending bill is H.R. 2250. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday.