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In this June 25, 2018, file photo, pro-life and anti-abortion advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Republican lawmakers in at least a half dozen GOP-controlled states already are talking about copying a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law was written in a way that was intended to avoid running afoul of federal law by allowing enforcement by private citizens, not government officials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pro-life, pro-choice groups go head-to-head to turn out voters in 2022

This Sept. 3, 2021, photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Former state AGs urges amendment to fix Supreme Court at nine justices

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the National Congress of American Indians' 78th Annual Convention, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Kamala Harris decries nation’s ‘shameful past’ to promote Biden’s social welfare package

In this March 23, 2016, photo, the U.S. Constitution is held by a member of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United States. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Lame Mule Act is today’s Flat Earth Society

FILE - In this April 28, 2015 file photo, Nick Clegg, then leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat party, speaks at a press conference in London. Speaking at the Atlantic Festival in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs, said the company has exempted politicians from its fact checking program for more than a year. But if politicians share previously debunked links or other material, those will be demoted and banned from being included in ads.. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Facebook’s Nick Clegg on improving platform: ‘There are certain things only lawmakers can do’

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters in New York. A lawyer for Bannon says Bannon won’t comply with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol because President Donald Trump is asserting executive privilege to block demands for testimony and documents.(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Bannon won’t comply with subpoena from House Jan. 6 panel

Fans fill the stadium at the football field at Whitewater High School on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, in Whitewater, Wis. A growing number of school districts in the U.S. are using federal pandemic funding on athletics projects. When school officials at Whitewater learned they would be getting $2 million in pandemic relief this year, they decided to set most of it aside to cover costs from their current budget, freeing up $1.6 million in local funding that’s being used to build new synthetic turf fields for football, baseball and softball. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Flush with COVID-19 aid, schools steer funding to sports

Illustration on children and Facebook by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Facebook’s war for the minds of children just beginning

Why is free college in infrastructure bill?

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a Democratic policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, as work continues behind the scenes on President Joe Biden's domestic agenda and a bill to fund the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Chuck Schumer sets end-of-month deadline for infrastructure, reconciliation bills to pass

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 photo, from left, Zihare Wellons, 7, Shahif Wellons, 12, and Janiyah Acie, 3 walk through new Rec2Tech space at Jefferson Recreation Center, which will provide access to technology and innovative programming for community members including STEM, computer science and coding education, combined with the arts in Pittsburgh. The city plans to use some of the money from the American Rescue Plan, passed by Congress last spring, to continue expanding these programs. Initial programming will be for young people, with plans to grow the programming into the broader community. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

States and cities slow to spend federal pandemic money: AP

President Joe Biden speaks with members of the press before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Washington. Biden is spending the weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden says he needs to do better job selling trillion-dollar spending plans to voters

In this Friday, March 17, 2017, photo, a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**

Food stamp benefits to jump after Congress-ordered review

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The poll also found that 42% of the respondents say Congress currently is doing “less than usual,” 26% are not sure about the issue, 24% say the accomplishment level is “about the same” while 9% say Congress is doing “more than usual.”

Inside the Beltway: 100 years of a 'do-nothing' Congress →

Congress says it will make up the difference by giving the Internal Revenue Service $80 billion to go after individuals and small businesses who may be shirking their responsibility.

EDITORIAL: Biden's newest whopper: $3.5 trillion in spending costs Americans 'zero-dollars' →

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