WASHINGTON: Congressional Democrats returning this week to the Washington they control will confront an embarrassing pile of unfinished budget business after spending the winter and spring blowing deadline after deadline. With many Democratic lawmakers running for their political lives five months before the November elections, even relatively simple tasks such as helping the jobless and preventing cuts in government payments to doctors for treating the elderly are hanging - victims of the ever increasing anxiety over annual trillion-dollar-plus deficits. A war funding bill is long overdue. The most basic chore of writing a budget has been all but abandoned. There's no sign of the 12 annual...
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