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[email protected] Website: www.kuwaittimes.net Washington Watch Dog of year in US Congress whimpers to end By David Espo arring uncharacteristically swift work by Congress, more than a million victims of the recession will lose long-term Bunemployment benefits over the holidays, the price of milk could shoot up in late winter and government payments might fall sharply for doctors who treat Medicare patients. There’s more - much more - as lawmakers grasp the tail end of a dog of a year. Federal payments to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands will begin shrinking, at least temporarily, on Jan 1. Tax breaks will expire temporarily for millions of people in states without an income tax, and also for the relatively few Americans who own racehorses. Family, politicians battle over ‘Brand Mandela’ These routine deadlines are going unmet in a year more likely to be remembered for a partial government shutdown inspired By Peroshni Govender, million rand ($1.2 million), he added. the South African government that use the brand “Long Walk to Freedom”, borrowed by the hardcore conservative tea party movement, the stalling of Jon Herskovitz and David Dolan Such demands fuel the notion, widely Mandela name. The companies appear to from the title of his autobiography, while President Barack Obama’s agenda, repeated failed Republican held in South Africa, that some of Mandela’s have no link to either Nelson Mandela, any of two of his US-based granddaughters starred attempts to eviscerate the health care law and a successful move rom political posters to bottles of wine children have exploited their father.