There's no reason for Congress to reconvene after an election.
bwahahahahaaaa!
Lame duck sessions are perfectly legitimate. I can imagine many pieces of emergency legislation that I and even you would probably support. What is not acceptable is to totally ignore the consent of the governed - and there will be consequences, beyond being voted out of office, for those who violate the trust. Let us hope that the crowd of bills blocks any mischief from becoming law.
Agreed, or just allow for a special session under unusual circumstances. Regardless of whether Republican incumbents (possibly including a few RINOS that didn’t make it past this year’s primary, remember) can stop the bills, they should raise hell and throw as many spanners into the works as possible.
It would probably require an Amendment.
There's no reason for Congress to reconvene after an election.
There is no logical reason for Congress to be in session more than three months a year, if that long. I suppose they meet year round for the convenience of the money men, the lobbyists. Otherwise the lobbyists would have to spend money on offices all over and even then the sparsely populated districts would be hard to get to without being overly conspicuous. It is much better to bring the money takers all to one convenient place.
But I agree, a lame duck Congress passing controversial bills is not cool.