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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) on Friday floated changing the structure of the federal government’s fiscal calendar by moving the end-of-year Sept. 30 deadline to prevent the cycle of Congress constantly facing shutdown risks in September.

“We're going to have to figure out, as we go forward, how we move that timeline up — or we put the year, the fiscal year-end, in a different place,” Emmer said in an interview with The Hill on Thursday.

He pointed to the congressional routine of not having members in Washington for votes for the month of August.

“You go do your district work period in August. You're gone, working your district, doing everything else — you come back after Labor Day, and it's simply too short. Even though all those bills are done, there's still so much left to do,” Emmer said.

His comments came as Congress is barreling toward a potential government shutdown on Oct. 1, and will........

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