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Congress has been back after the week-plus Thanksgiving Day break. And days are slipping off the calendar as lawmakers struggle to assemble a plan to address health care or defray the cost of spiking premiums.

The deadline is the end of the calendar year. But Fox is told that the insurance companies just need action by Jan. 15.

Still, that doesn’t give Congress much time to act. And, depending on the metric, the House is only scheduled to meet for nine days for the rest of 2025.

The Senate is not as clear, but, unofficially, the Senate will only meet for nine more days as well.

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The House is scheduled to be in Tuesday through Friday. Then Dec. 15 through Dec. 19.

The Senate m

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