With the U.S. Senate voting 93-7 Tuesday to adopt the conference report for an $855.1 billion bill that will fund the departments of Defense, Labor, Education and Health and Human Services (HHS) in fiscal 2019, the NIH and most of the other HHS agencies are on track to escape the cycle of continuing resolutions that have become the norm for too many years. For that to happen, though, the House has to approve the bill and the president has to sign it before midnight Sept. 30.