Big Issues On The Agenda For Congress

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Monday, November 16th 2020, 5:28 pm

By: News 9

Big Issues On The Agenda For Congress

Big Issues On The Agenda For Congress

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Funding the government, approving new COVID relief, authorizing new military spending; those are the big items on the agenda for Congress over the next few weeks, but certainly not the only items.

News 9/News On 6's Alex Cameron is in our Washington bureau following it all.

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