A Week of Activity Can’t Mask the Hard Feelings in Congress

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer

May 13, 2008, 5:15 p.m.

The good news is that Congress is buckling down to a full schedule of meaty, substantive issues, the most robust planned agenda in a long time. The bad news? It will be nothing short of a miracle if we end up the week with anything significant that is on its way to presidential signature — or if we see any signs of hope that we are emerging from the prolonged unhealthiness in our politics and policy process in Washington.

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