Rabu, 07 Juni 2017

We’ve Been Here Before: Some Partisan Fights Never End

A recent poll found that Congress has a lower approval rating than root canals, colonoscopies, cockroaches or Genghis Khan. The likely reason is deadlock. The 112th Congress, with a Republican House and a Democratic Senate, could not face the fiscal cliff—the chaos that might have ensued when Bush-era tax cuts expired—until its last lame-duck hours …

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