The Senate approved the legislation earlier Wednesday in a 78-20 vote, and Obama signed it into law that evening. All 20 ânoâ votes in the Senate came from Republicans, though Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), both running for president, missed the vote. Without action by Congress, the federal government would have shut down on Thursday, the beginning of a new fiscal year.
A buffer is made by mixing a large volume of a weak acid or weak base together with its conjugate. A weak acid and its conjugate base can remain in solution without neutralizing each other.
The bicarbonate buffer system is one of the chemical buffer systems of the body. How would the bicarbonate buffer system work if sodium hydroxide were added to a solution? Hint 1. The bicarbonate buffer system is a mixture of carbonic acid (weak acid) and its salt sodium bicarbonate (weak base). A hydrogen on carbonic acid would dissociate and join the hydroxyl group on the base to form water and sodium bicarbonate.