GOP Congress Has a Modest To-Do List Before Polarized Midterms
- Top House measure is partisan farm bill shunned by Senate
- GOP may lose control of House and Senate in November election
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Republicans are showing little appetite for big action in what may be their last months in full control of Congress.
The House took much of last week off and doesn’t get back to Washington until Tuesday. The Senate is bogged down in confirmation hearings. And many lawmakers are already focused on their first election campaigns since President Donald Trump took office.