This will come just as a lame-duck Congress is getting ready to call it a year and a session.

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It's too much to expect a few weeks of lame-duck session to accomplish more than this Congress has done in any of its previous 22 months.

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Yet it makes no sense to go for long-term tax policy with a lame-duck Congress, especially one more oppositional than the new one coming in January.

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Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- It may surprise the casual visitor at Arlington National Cemetery to see a rubber duck on a headstone or an old football helmet lying in the manicured grass of a fallen soldier's grave.

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Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.

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The old Pasteurella pestis, as we used to call it in those glorious primitive days when drugs worked, was duck soup for a half dozen anti-biotics.

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