If they measured by weight, the current lame-duck session of Congress would be the fattest bird in the history of post-election lawmaking.
In terms of the tonnage of legislation considered, laws passed and money spent, none of the 17 pervious lame-duck sessions can match the current meeting of Congress.
There have been bigger single events (the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998) and longer laundry lists (the 1980 lame duck saw vast piles of legislation pushed through as Democrats were being pushed out), but this year’s session, a sort of super duck, is something different.
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