Sunday, December 10, 2006

Worst Congress Ends

Here are two articles (one and two) on the last acts of the worst Congress in memory. They extended some tax breaks, reformed the post office, extended trade benefits to Vietnam, four Andean nations, sub-Saharan African countries and Haiti.

"Republicans dumped an unfinished budget on the Democrats about to take power, with the Senate barely meeting a midnight deadline to pass a stopgap spending bill putting the government on autopilot until Feb. 15. Bush quickly signed the bill on Saturday. The failure to pass budget bills for domestic agencies, said Rep. David Obey (D-WI) amounted to 'a blatant admission of abject failure by the most useless Congress in modern times.'"

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