Regulations and Government
Congressional Observer: January 2007
• Congress took a three-week break on November 16 to allow lawmakers to ponder the results of the election.

• Congress took a three-week break on November 16 to allow lawmakers to ponder the results of the election. On December 5 lame-duck lawmakers limped back into session but ran like race horses on the way to the finish line and ended the business of the 109th Congress four days later.

The big final act was the passage of a $50 billion bill that had a multitude of provisions, among which were opening 8.3 million acres of federally owned land in the Gulf of Mexico for the production of oil and natural gas, a five-year extension of various tax breaks for families and businesses and eliminating cuts in payments to doctors for Medicare patients.

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