It seems like every two years, members of Congress who retired or have been let go by their constituents get one last chance to legislate. A good government policy would be to not schedule lame duck sessions of Congress at all.

We have new members of the House and Senate elected to serve starting on Jan. 3, 2025, and the elected members should be the ones to fund the government and pass new legislation. Furthermore, any new legislation that sabotages the incoming Trump administration should be abandoned.

Lame duck refers to a Congress being in session between a November congressional election and the following Jan. 3 when new members are sworn in. All the members of the House are sitting members, yet not all of them are elected to legislate in a new Congress.

The Senate is a bit different, because it is considered a continuing body, yet at least one third of the seats in the Senate are in the same position occupied by a sitting member who is not necessarily the one who will be sworn in a new Congress.........

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