avoiwelcome back. senate appropriations committee chairman richard shelby told reporters last night that lawmakers were working on drafting a continuing resolution to fund the government until early february. two democratic sources tell nbc news that both house and senate democrats are indicating they would not oppose that plan. but president trump said he does not want to sign additional continuing resolutions. so we'll see how that squares out. also in the senate, lawmakers passed a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill setting the stager for the most massive change to the federal prison sentence in in a generation.