Congress finally gets its business done

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This is what the most detested, divided, gridlocked Congress in recent memory looks like when it works.

At one point in the past two weeks, lawmakers fought over the definition of a catfish. They fought over the question of when life begins. They fought about health-care legislation that passed two years ago and an immigration bill that failed 17 months ago.

One day, Democrats staged a walkout of the House chamber. On another, a Republican held a committee hearing to study his committee hearings.

And then — on the last afternoon of the last workday — they managed to complete the work that had been hanging in the balance the whole time. They saved student borrowers and their parents from an increase in college-loan interest rates and saved states from running out of highway funding.

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