October is the new fiscal year, so Congress has to approve the spending bills to keep the government running by then and if not, they'll have to approve continuing resolutions that would keep the government running.
After his May 1981 recommendations were rejected, President Reagan proposed a makeshift bargain: the Greenspan commission would be appointed to recommend what ought to be done by Dec. 31, 1982, and, to keep the fund from running dry before then, Social Security should be given permission to borrow from the disability and Medicare funds.
As a consequence I have been putting things in on-line repositories and then emailing links to folks I want to get these items but I keep getting close to running out of (free) space to store this stuff.