What's got farmers feeling down?

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Benashore and for David Brancaccio.

More on farmers in a sec.

First, tomorrow's presidential debate and the campaign for control the White House in Congress will

likely dominate the news this week but there is still actual work to be done in

Washington Congress is back from its Labor Day break and it's facing the annual deadline for funding the government by the end of the month.

Marketplace's Kimberly Adams reports on how that is going.

Ideally by this point in the year Congress would have passed 12 separate appropriations bills,

sent them to the president, and then we'd have funding for the government for another fiscal year.

Philip Wallach is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

But in practice, Congress tends to push off those decisions until a little bit later in the year.

And that's where we are this year. And while we are all well used to the stopgap spending bills known as

continuing resolutions or CRs, Wallach says one difference in an election year

is that we may be a bit less likely to risk a government

shutdown.

Somebody has to end up holding the bag for a shutdown, but right ahead of an election where

the other side will do everything they can to heap up the blame.

I don't see either party really seeing it as in their interest.

So folks here in Washington are pretty convinced there will be a deal ahead of the September 30th

deadline, but the details are still getting hammered out.

There could be a CR that would just get us well into the new presidential term or so the next most likely option would be a

continuing resolution that brings us to the other side of the election.

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