We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.

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It is the Liberal Democrats who are making the most progress there, as the table shows.

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There was social progress, too (see table 4).

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