Long list of unfinished Senate business includes defense policy bill

Whatever happens Tuesday, Congress will return to a long lame duck agenda. In addition to big-ticket questions like averting sequestration and addressing expiring tax cuts, there are plenty of low-profile items.

Below is a list of unfinished legislative items created by staff in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The length of the list ensures many items will not be completed in this Congress.
 

• Sportsmen's
• Boxer-Menendez
• SAFER and FIRE Grants
• Cybersecurity
• Defense authorization
• Russia trade
• Judges
• Farm bill
• Disabilities treaty
• Tax extenders
• FISA reauthorization
• VAWA conference
• Congressional review
• Credit union lending
• Intel authorization
• Water Resources Development
• Rural housing 
• TAG program (FDIC insurance)
• Children¹s Hospitals GME reauthorization
• Tax treaties
• A public lands package
• The Law of the Sea treaty
• Miscellaneous Tariff Bill
• Carcieri Fix
• Doc fix/health extenders
• 2001/2003/2009 tax cuts