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What should Obama and the NEW congress work on when the next session starts?

Asked by tedd (14078points) December 22nd, 2010

Someone had posted asking what Obama should finish before the Lame Duck session is over and it got me thinking, what should he and congress try working on when the new session begins?

Not that the majority has mattered all that much, but the Dems won’t have it anymore in the House, and it won’t be nearly as large in the Senate. There have been some encouraging developments in bipartisanship in the last few weeks, with Republicans signing off on DADT, and the BIG compromise of the extended tax cuts and jobless benefits. But what do you think they should work on? Do you think they’ll work on anything or just go back to being at one another throats?

Personally, I’d like them to sit down with the report that the bipartisan committee made by Obama came up with on reducing the deficit. There had been some talk about it already, but it was back burnered in favor of more pressing matters for the Lame Duck. While everyone is gonna find some things they like and some things they hate in the reports suggested legislation… I think it would be nice to see them work together on it and actually pass something that would work towards reducing the debt and deficit.

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