<Li> 5th Continuing Resolution ("Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011"), funding through March 18, 2011, passed on March 2, 2011 . (Pub. L. 112 - 4) This resolution cut $4 billion from 2010 spending levels . </Li> <Li> 6th Continuing Resolution ("Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011"), funding through April 8, 2011, passed on March 16, 2011 . (Pub. L. 112 - 6) This resolution cut an additional $6 billion from 2010 spending levels . </Li> <Li> 7th Continuing Resolution ("Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011"), funding through April 15, 2011, passed on April 9, 2011 . (Pub. L. 112 - 8) This continuing resolution followed a deal on the full annual budget which was made with just hours remaining before a government shutdown . It itself contains an additional $2 billion in cuts . Democrats had previously rejected a Republican - backed resolution passed by the House before the deal, which would have funded the government for another week and cut an additional $12 billion from 2010 levels . </Li> <P> The government began fiscal year 2013 operating under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Pub. L. 112--175), which provided funding through March 27, 2013 . It was signed by President Obama on September 28, 2012 . Spending through the end of fiscal year 2013 is authorized by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, signed into law by President Obama on March 26, 2013 . </P>

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