Congress increasingly going through the motions (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 07/11/2008 - 3:06am

President Bush, center, is applauded by members of Congress and his cabinet, after signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, (FISA), Thursday, July 10, 2008, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.<br /><br />From left are, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, obscured, Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., the president, and House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Some fights of the 110th Congress have lost their oomph in the waning months before the November elections, with both parties content to run out the clock on messy matters like the war in Iraq, spending bills and various disputes with the White House.



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