
Back To Work. Lawmakers will return to the Capitol on Jan. 6 after their holiday recess and face the immediate task of working out a compromise fiscal year 2014 appropriations bill. Congress passed a budget deal just before Christmas, which set an overall spending limit, and the bill the House and Senate appropriations committees are now working on will set individual spending lines for each program within each government department and agency. Senate Appropriations Committee spokesman Vince Morris says Jan.…