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A Gridlocked Congress Wraps the Year With a Legislative Flurry

Carolyn Presutti

   WASHINGTON - Steven Billet worked on Capitol Hill for prominent members
   of the House of Representatives and then spent 18 years lobbying
   Congress for a telecommunications company. Now he directs the
   Legislative Affairs Program at George Washington University. He shakes
   his head when asked to comment on the state of Congress this past year
   and says he has never seen it "worse in my lifetime."

   Billet says the divisiveness is a reflection of the country as a whole,
   in a year dominated by the impeachment of President Donald Trump. That
   discord proved itself in a Congress of inaction for the first 11 months
   of the year, followed by a whirlwind of votes in December.

   WATCH: Carolyn Presutti's video report

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