Patrick Leahy: The clock is ticking

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who is the vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Once again Congress finds itself lurching toward another manufactured made-in-Washington crisis. We are four months into a new fiscal year, and our government is still operating under last year’s fixed funding levels with little flexibility to adapt to today’s world. We have not reauthorized the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), puttin