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US Congress Faces Long To-Do List With Limited Time

Katherine Gypson

   CAPITOL HILL - U.S. congressional lawmakers return to work this week
   with a lengthy agenda of contentious issues and only 41 legislative
   days left in the year to complete it.

   Members of the U.S. Senate and House spent the past six weeks
   vacationing, taking official fact-finding trips and meeting with
   constituents and financial supporters. They now return to Capitol Hill
   facing problems that festered in their absence. Arguably the most
   pressing challenge will be funding the government ahead of the new
   fiscal year Oct. 1.

   Here is a list of the problems that will keep lawmakers busy heading
   into the 2020 presidential and congressional election year.

   Budget

   Lawmakers have just 13 working days to pass a batch of spending bills
   before government funding runs out at the end of the current fiscal
   year Sept. 30.
   

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