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Long list of unfinished Senate business includes defense policy bill
Staff of Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has taken an inventory.
Whatever happens Tuesday, Congress will return to a long lame duck agenda. In addition to big-ticket questions like averting sequestration and addressing expiring tax cuts, there are plenty of low-profile items.
Below is a list of unfinished legislative items created by staff in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The length of the list ensures many items will not be completed in this Congress.
- Sportsmen's
- Boxer-Menendez
- SAFER and FIRE Grants
- Cybersecurity
- Defense authorization
- Russia trade
- Judges
- Farm bill
- Disabilities treaty
- Tax extenders
- FISA reauthorization
- VAWA conference
- Congressional review
- Credit union lending
- Intel authorization
- Water Resources Development
- Rural housing
- TAG program (FDIC insurance)
- Children¹s Hospitals GME reauthorization
- Tax treaties
- A public lands package
- The Law of the Sea treaty
- Miscellaneous Tariff Bill
- Carcieri Fix
- Doc fix/health extenders
- 2001/2003/2009 tax cuts