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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought you by Punch Bowl News. It's Tuesday, September 27th, 2022.

Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one,

we've got the latest on government funding. Number two, some news on legislation to ban members

and others from trading stocks. And number three, electoral reform legislation is moving forward

in the Senate. All right. As we all know, all eyes this week are on

getting the government funded through December 16th. The Senate is back today. The House returns tomorrow.

Let's talk about this effort to get the Stop Gap funding bill to keep the federal government open beyond

Friday to tee up the first item of the day. So House and Senate appropriators late Monday

night unveiled a short-term government funding bill to keep federal agencies open until December 16th.

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