Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 10/23/19

Senators on Tuesday voted to launch debate on the Agriculture-FDA appropriations bill and three other measures, months after the House passed its own version of the legislation in June. But the likelihood of passing a final version negotiated by both chambers before Nov. 21, when a continuing resolution expires, is highly unlikely, write Pro Budget's Jennifer Scholtes and Caitlin Emma.

Top House and Senate appropriators aren't ruling out another stopgap measure that would extend funding into 2020. Negotiators reached a broad budget deal over the summer that set topline defense and domestic spending levels, but they haven't decided how to break up the funding among the 12 annual appropriations bills. "That's really the key," House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) said this week. "We've been going back and forth, but no resolution."

The House-passed Agriculture spending bill includes $24.3 billion in discretionary funding, while the Senate version totals $23.1 billion.