There is a good possibility that a sound, bipartisan bill authorizing a program so important to our future economic growth -- infrastructure -- will be tossed aside for a 10th extension and kicked into a new Congress to startall over fromscratch.
They have to rip up all the good work of the last 12 months and start again fromscratch - and there has to be a huge question mark over whether they can bounce back in those circumstances.