![]() ![]() The lame duck may have been as wounded as a lawyer at a Dick Cheney shooting party, but for a week it flew like an eagle. coli out of our food the ratification of the New START treaty with Russia and health-care coverage for 9/11 first responders sickened by their service at Ground Zero. In the six days from December 17th until December 22nd, it sent President Obama a barrage of bills, including, in chronological order, a huge tax-cuts-and-unemployment-relief compromise package the repeal of the dishonorable “Don’t ask, don’t tell” law a substantial strengthening of the government’s ability to keep contaminants like E. Reconvening for the last time after the shock of November’s Republican wave, the outgoing, still Democratic Congress legislated with unwonted vigor and speed. ![]() The hundred and eleventh Congress, which had emitted more than a few whimpers along the way, ended with a fusillade of bangs.
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