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  1. Farm bill heads into lame duck with milk's permanent-law shield expiring Dec. 31

    Voters handed both chambers to Democrats on Tuesday. The outgoing Congress now has until Dec. 31 before the suspension of 1949-era milk price support lapses, and until Dec. 11 before government funding runs out.