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Congress is back in session.
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Members of the Senate and U.S.
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House of Representatives have about a month to work on legislation,because we're coming up on the midterm elections.
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Now, we've got a quick reminder for you on those.
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Voters will cast ballots for all 435 members of the House of Representatives, plus, around a third of theseats in the Senate.
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Primary elections have been running for months.
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There are morethan a halfdozen of those today.
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The general election is on November 2nd.
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Congressmen and women are looking at all sorts of issues,from the economy to food safety andmilitary policies.
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But some analysts don't think much is gonna happen on any subject,because they think members of Congress don't want to get into controversial debatesbefore the big election.
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One issue that Congress probably will get into,though, is a setof tax cuts.
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