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Congress inches on in an election year
Washington Times ^ | Monday, June 24, 2002 | Donald Lambro

Posted on 06/24/2002 3:25:51 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

This was the year an election-minded Congress was supposed to be more interested in scoring political points than passing legislation. Surprisingly, there seems to be a bit more movement on Capitol Hill than most had expected.

Political gridlock typically rules Congress in a midterm congressional election year. Things started that way in January. President Bush's agenda was moving along at a relatively fast clip last year until the Democrats took control of the Senate and his agenda gradually slowed to a crawl and seemed to stop altogether earlier this year.


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Monday, June 24, 2002

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