Congress Turns to Post-Election Business

By David Welna

Published November 16, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Congress attends to overdue spending bills Tuesday, but the focus in the Senate was on opposition to Sen. Arlen Specter's chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. NPR's David Welna reports.

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