Reduce cannabis business as target for crime
Divided government — as we will see for at least the next two years beginning in January with Democrats remaining in control of the White House and the Senate and Republicans with a slim majority in the House — is the glass half-empty yet half-full of legislative action.
The half-full view is that little of what the majority of the public would oppose can pass. The half-empty outlook is that little of what most in the public supports can become law. Prepare for seeing more of the word “gridlock” in news coverage.
So, Democrats in Congress are hoping to use what’s dubbed the “lame-duck session” to take advantage of the majority they have for the remaining six weeks of flight and wing out a handful of legislative wins.
Among some possibilities that are worthy of passage: reforms to how electoral college votes for presidential elections are acknowledge by Congress, removing any doubt of interference by conniving forces; an increase or removal of the federal debt limit to head off the possibility of one party using default or its threat as leverage for legislation; continued support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion; an extension of an expanded Child Tax Credit, which until it expired earlier this year made significant headway against childhood poverty; and codifying the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision guaranteeing the right to same-sex marriage, which in the view of at least one court justice should have been tossed out with Roe v. Wade.
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