Congress is mercifully on recess until mid-January, but the debate over extending the payroll-tax cut and unemployment benefits is not out of mind.
Although Congress passed and the president signed a two-month extension last week, House and Senate negotiators are already squabbling.
GOP conferees have expressed their intention to move forward with a controversial provision giving states the power to require drug testing for those receiving unemployment benefits. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., one of the conferees, called the idea “insulting.”
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