THERE’S A LAME DUCK COMING: It’s the last legislative session of the 119th Congress, commencing at some point soon after next Tuesday’s Midterm Elections. As I report today in The Washington Stand, the Senate and House have a bunch of unfinished business to complete and, with 71 Members leaving Congress at the end of the 119th, they could exercise some immense leverage if they were of a mind to do so.

How so? Well, the debt ceiling soon must be either raised higher or suspended altogether if the senators and representatives want to continue spending the nation toward bankruptcy by never balancing the budget and constantly adding to the National Debt.

But what might happen if those 71 departing Members of the 119th — 44 GOPers and 27 Dems —  tell the rest of them “no more deficit spending, you’ve got to balance the budget and start making serious progress on eliminating that nearly $41 Trillion National Debt?” They could be the most powerful voting block ever in the modern history of Congress.