What's at stake for the lame ducks in Congress-washingtonpost.com

What's at stake for the lame ducks in Congress-washingtonpost.com: On Capitol Hill, this is the beginning of a strange season. Congress has returned to work for a “lame duck” session, held in the shadow of last month’s Republican rout in the midterm elections. For the next month, Capitol Hill will be divided between a party that has power but no mandate — and another that has a mandate but no power. Which will be awkward. But this ill-matched Congress can’t simply go home. In December, legislators will tackle a number of problems they couldn’t agree on before the elections.