WASHINGTON (AP) – Congressional lawmakers are heading for recess and leaving behind a pile of unfinished business.
Not long after they return in September, members of the House and Senate face a vote on President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, a brutally divisive issue.
And, as more videos emerge showing fetal tissue collection practices, Republicans are increasingly focused on cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood.
That raises the prospect that Congress will spend September tied in knots over how to avoid shutting down the government over that issue.
Later in the fall or winter, Congress will also have to raise the federal debt limit, another issue ripe for brinkmanship.