After years of gridlock and inaction, the Senate and Congress are taking up a massive, bipartisan package including $1.1 trillion in spending and $622 billion in taxes. The tax portion passed the House today, even though Speaker Paul Ryan had reservations. "Let me be the first to say, I don't think this is the way government should work. This is not the way appropriations should work... We played the cards that we were dealt with as best as we possibly could." Paul Singer is Washington correspondent for USA Today.
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