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Both sides lined and hawed over the long delay before the farm bill in the Senate this fall, but the silver bands on the horizon is that Congress will probably be the end of the very popular and, finally, bipartie legislation in 2008 that the legislature at least a success for the future During the calendar year throughout their re-election campaigns. It may be the only Big Ticket bill, as Congress and President Bush signed the next year, as Republicans and Democrats, much less legislative provision prior agreement that the year 2007.

“As a general rule, it is a year of [the first meeting of a congress], which for the reserve,” Senator Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said in an interview. “It was the old model. So, you expect that the policy would be in the electoral process in the year. But now it is just overwhelmed the entire cycle, which is regrettable.”

The first meeting of the 110 Congress is left to bottom, as defined by the supporters of the struggle during nearly every important subject, which took birth. The Democratic majority have developed agreements with President Bush and Republican minority in a few large objects, including an increase in the minimum wage, a plan to increase the effectiveness of automatic stations standards, a free - Peru trade pact with students and loans for relief. On matters of war in Iraq on immigration reform stem cell research, disagreement and deadlock. The second session that starts on January 15 - amid presidential prefixes - promises longer the same. “There are probably stoves a hard year for major success,” Rep. David Price, DN.C., admitted.

Many factors promote stagnation. For works, Bush has few opportunities to promote the legislation. During his second term, even if Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate, it has not been able, through its initiatives. Democrats complain that Bush did nothing, but they affect, because it assumes in January. “It is not just an election year, it is not only a lame duck,” said Price. “He has a Democratic Congress, he has quite thoroughly antagonized. It can block things, but it is in a very bad position to initiate a lot - and it is his own bed.”

Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. President of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, went further on the dismissal Bush. “It is increasingly relevant,” she said. Senate majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., A says 11 journalists December that the president was “impossible”.

On the reverse, cutting Democrats have little goodwill with members of the Republican minority, here, now little incentive for cooperation with the majority of its agenda. Even Snowe, a moderate, often with the Democrats on the inside pages themes and set their demands for the withdrawal of Iraq troops forcibly calendars, said that a majority of the heavy hand in dealing with procedural tactics to prevent the Republicans to change.

“It is constant obstruction - fenced voices, procedural obstacles and roadblocks, the majority during the occupation of amending the tree,” said Snowe. “You fill the tree to limit our ability to make changes. Under this amendment is really custom, the United States Senate.