The House of Representatives adjourned this week for a two-week recess ahead of the third extended deadline to fund the government for the 2024 fiscal year, which will leave merely three legislative days to do so once they return. Both houses of Congress passed a continuing resolution, the third such legislation since the fiscal year, on Jan. 18 to avert a partial government shutdown scheduled for Jan. 19. Part of the funding authorized by that resolution is scheduled to expire on March 1, though neither chamber of Congress has made headway in passing all 12 appropriations bills needed to perm…