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The public panned it. Republicans obstructed it. Many Democrats fled from it.

Even so, the session of Congress now drawing to a close was the most productive in nearly half a century.

Not since the explosive years of the civil rights movement and the hard-fought debut of government-supported health care for the elderly and poor have so many big things ? love them or hate them ? been done so quickly.

Gridlock? It may feel that way. But that's not the story of the 111th Congress ? not the story history will remember.

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