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Here’s what GOP can and should do for their last two months in power

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Republicans in Congress will lose power at the start of January, and they won’t get it back soon.

But they still have eight weeks until then.

They’ll need to get to work.

There’s a long history of achievement in lame-duck sessions with the outgoing Congress.

More than a dozen Supreme Court justices have been confirmed in a lame-duck session, including legends such as Chief Justice John Marshall and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery was passed by a lame-duck Congress.

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