The resolution was hammered out by Iraq's main political parties earlier in December after an impasse among parliamentary factions that threatened to push it beyond the deadline.
Congress passed a temporary resolution to keep the government funded beyond the midnight deadline, until the full agreement can be completed and passed next week.
The Supreme Court's order Wednesday gives him four more weeks beyond the original deadline, which was Thursday.
However, given the deep differences between Shias, Kurds and others over the role of Islam, the extent of federalism and the status of the disputed province of Kirkuk, the government may have to invoke a law that allows for a six-month extension, beyond the August deadline.
Representative DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (Democrat, Florida): There's far more that needs to be done beyond extending the deadline, but at the very least we need to make sure that seniors don't face what is essentially a Bush prescription drug tax for every day that they don't sign up after Monday.
The success of the attraction could see it staying beyond the original March deadline.
But in other ways the Americans are seeking to cement their presence beyond the June 30th deadline.
They may well agree to allow nuclear plants to continue operating beyond 2022, the deadline set by an earlier SPD-Green government.
The conference ended up running nearly two days beyond its scheduled deadline, but the 11th-hour agreement was both valuable enough and vague enough to let many countries claim success.
So we have said for a long time now if the Iraqi government asks us to maintain some level of troops beyond that end-of-the-year deadline, we would consider it.
And it now risks causing more tangible harm as the U.S. agrees to more concessions and extensions--yesterday to one beyond even the earlier "final" deadline of March 17.
On Tuesday, he said the Fed would consider extending its direct lending window to Wall Street companies (aka, primary dealers typically not allowed to borrow directly from the Fed) beyond a mid-September deadline to promote stability, as long as short-term debt markets continue to be severely constrained by the credit crisis.
Boehner told reporters that the House will take up a measure next week to authorize federal funding beyond that deadline.
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