7. Jimmy Carter’s Second Eight Day Government Shutdown Of 1977
By this point, government shutdowns, because Congress could not agree on the terms for the abortion funding, started to look like a theme for the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Just a few weeks after President Carter signed a second temporary funding bill for abortion so the government could resume its services, the end date came up and, for the third time within a couple of months, the government shut down over the issue of abortion funding. Following the theme, this shutdown became known as the Abortion Shutdown III: Dark of the Moon.
The trouble between the House and Senate was that the House did not believe victims of statutory rape should be allowed funding for abortion. They further felt that the Senate was too relaxed about the spending. The Senate, on the other hand, thought that the House was too strict on the expenditure. In the end, the Senate won with only a few revisions. The main changed was the bill officially included funding for victims of rape and incest, providing the mother’s life was in danger. With this negotiation, the government shutdown formally ended on December 9th.