By Channing Riggs, Ann Freeman, and Gayla Marty
From Brief, September 22, 2004
As the September light wanes over Washington, D.C., the 108th Congress prepares to adjourn and go home for the last hot weeks of election campaigns.
There's a lot to do in the remaining days before the federal fiscal year ends. A budget has not been approved, so it now appears likely that everything will be tossed into an omnibus appropriation bill to pass at the proverbial eleventh hour.