Full slate of unfinished business will test lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The crush of unfinished business facing lawmakers would be daunting even if Washington were functioning at peak efficiency.
It’s an agenda whose core items — tax cuts, a potential government shutdown, lots of leftover spending bills — could unravel just as easily as advance in factionalism, gamesmanship and a toxic political environment.
There’s only a four-week window until a Christmas deadline, barely enough time for complicated negotia