October 21, 1999
Web posted at: 6:38 p.m. EDT (2238 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bill Clinton Thursday signed a new temporary spending measure that will keep the federal government running through Friday, October 29.

Since the beginning of the government's fiscal year, October 1, much of the government has been operating on temporary spending authority because the president and Congress are at odds over spending levels and priorities.

The first temporary spending measure passed by Congress and signed by the president, known as a continuing resolution, expires at midnight Thursday. The new measure, passed by Congress earlier this week, runs through midnight October 29. The measure keeps the government operating at last year's levels.

The White House has said Clinton is reluctant to sign another temporary measure and hopes to reach a budget compromise with congressional Republicans by next week.

The president and Congress have been averse this year to shutting the government down during their disputes over the budget. In 1995, the government was shut down twice due to disputes between the president and Congress.

Congressional and White House budget negotiators are continuing to iron out differences between Clinton's proposed budget and Congress' version. But presidential veto threats remain .

On Friday, Republicans hope to send Clinton the last and biggest of the 13 annual spending measures for fiscal 2000. The bill would provide more than $300 billion for the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Education.

House and Senate Republicans have added billions of dollars to it in recent days -- including, they say, $340 million more than Clinton requested for education. But it too faces a veto threat because it lacks money for Clinton's plan to hire thousands of new teachers, and generally gives states added control of federal education dollars.

CNN's John King and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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