House Returns With First Widespread COVID-19 Testing Program, Lame Duck Agenda
The House has a critical to-do list for a new Congress, which includes leadership and legislative battles. Lawmakers still have business for the lame duck session, but now will have testing protocols.
The House of Representatives will return Monday to a post-election session with a few major but controversial items to address, including leadership elections, how to deal with more coronavirus relief and a must-pass spending bill.
To help, they'll have a new, widespread testing program to track the coronavirus among members, staffers and workers. The plan is a first for any chamber of Congress eight months into the pandemic, and it comes as cases are spiking across the country and in Washington, D.C.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says the focus during the lame duck session â a notoriously difficult time to pass legislation, between the elections and a new Congress â will be on a stalled
