use lame-duck sessions of congress to try to pass tame legislation but democrats have one more opportunity to exercise their majority in the house. so this year we could see some more controversial bills coming up for a vote. james rosen is live in washington with more on this, hi, james. reporter: good morning. that sound you re hearing over the partisan din is the clatter of two simultaneously ticking clocks on the federal government s ability to continue operating without funding. the other on the dwindling lifespan of the bush era tax cuts and yet as pressing as those two matters are they are not the only items the lame-duck congress may wind up tackling. let s look at few others. sources tell fox news the outgoing democratic majority led by speaker nancy pelosi may make perennial so the nondiscrimination act. nancy pelosi the house speaker has mused about taking up the dream act. this allows some illegal aliens under 18 to avoid deportation. they could seek to retie