Members of Congress will have a one point seven trillion, forty-one hundred page omnibus spending bill to digest and pass by the end of the week.

House republicans are pressuring Senators to only pass a short-term continuing resolution to next month when they take control.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says those public statements are only for show…..

Rounds says republicans in the House would not be ready to take on budget work early in the session…..

Rounds says the Senate has to take the responsible course….

The latest short term federal government funding authorization expires on Friday.