The first of the two-legged, two-staged, lame-duck session of Congress begins Monday, and it consists of mostly wounded “ducks.” These winged fowl would love nothing more than to duck the huge legislative agenda that awaits them.
Congress spent the week preparing for its more-than-month-long recess by finally passing the extension of the federal unemployment benefits. This $34 billion bill was passed in the Senate on Tuesday, just minutes after the newest senator from West Virginia was sworn in as the 100th United States senator for the 111th Congress.
