1. Tax Cuts
Barack Obama voted to have a bill passed that will extend the bush-era tax cuts and extend unemployment coverage for 13 months. This bill was created to help the American families recover from the recession that has wracked the people of America with much strife. This bill is one of the ways Barack is working to help America regain it's strength.

2.Pork Filled Spending Bill
There is an arguement that they should pass a spending bill to fund the government. The bill that has been previously been funding them is going to expire soon, so they are doing there best to get another bill passed to fund them.

3.The Senate's War Over Christmas
The Republican's and Democrat's were blaming each other for being Grinch-like. They were saying that the other was planning on staying in session over there Christmas break period. The whole situation was very cat fight-like. They were just playing a very pointless blame game.

4.Tax Cut Deal
Many other government officials will be voting on the bush-era tax cuts and unemployment money bill soon. This will include many politicians in all the states.