Congress reconvenes in a lame-duck session this week after a month long break to campaign for the mid-term elections.  With Democrats licking their wounds and Republicans reviewing their strategy after taking over the Senate and improving their hold on the House, the big question seems to be: Will anything get done before Congress heads home for the Christmas holidays in mid-December?

 

According to several political pundits who spoke on the Sunday talk shows, there's little expectation that much will be accomplished, agriculturally related or otherwise, in the short session before the term of the 113th Congress expires on January 3, especially with the troubling issue of immigration reform hanging over Washington.  In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS "Face the Nation" program, President Obama restated his vow to use his executive power to make changes in immigration policy by year's end, despite warning from top Republicans that this would worsen the already inimical relationship with the White House and with Congressional Democrats.

 

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