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This Concurrent Resolution directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make specific corrections to a bill, H.R. 195, also known as the Federal Register Printing Savings Act of 2017. The corrections aim to ensure that federal employees, District of Columbia government employees, and employees of the District of Columbia Courts who were furloughed—meaning temporarily sent home without pay—due to a lapse in appropriations, which is a period when Congress has not passed a bill to fund government operations, starting around January 20, 2018, will be compensated for that time. Additionally, the resolution mandates that states or other federal grantees who used their own funds to continue federal programs or pay furloughed employees during this lapse will be reimbursed by the federal government, including any interest incurred. Finally, it clarifies that the period covered by a specific appropriations act, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018, includes the time frame of the lapse in appropriations that began around January 20, 2018.