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Published 11/11/2008 by Paul C. Light at Wash Post In Congress
President-elect Barack Obama is currently mulling one of the largest legislative agendas in modern history. He promised it and the public expects it. But if the past is prologue, his agenda is likely to be one of the smallest since the 1960s.
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