Lame Duck à l’Orange

Duck and Cov­ered with Oranges

Now that the lame duck ses­sion has ended and the 111^th Con­gress has adjourned, let’s take time to dis­cuss what we liked—and didn’t like—in the leg­isla­tive cal­en­dar for items con­sid­ered between Novem­ber 3, 2010 and today.

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