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‘Toxic combination of extremism and hyper-partisanship’ makes 112th Congress ‘the least productive in history’: Rep. Louise Slaughter

US lawmakers gave themselves a New Year’s resolution of sorts late Tuesday, but it was nearly a lump of coal: a “fiscal cliff” bill that few like, and which highlights the dysfunction gripping Washington. Lawmakers’ inability to meet their own self-imposed year-end deadline or address the crucial element of the…