After accepting that President Obama would not sacrifice his marquee health care reform package to partisan bickering, congressional Republicans voted to reopen the government and temporarily lift the debt ceiling. While a permanent solution was not reached, the NSF and NIH are back online. Our group had several grant proposals scheduled to be reviewed during the shutdown and was planning on submitting several more. It is still unclear as to how the scheduling will get back on track, but we are excited to get these out.