2012 Legislative Agenda : USPS, Elections Force Hands

"Anything that happens in June gets baked into the psyche of the voters," she says. "There's no doubt that it will be reignited as much as a campaign issue as it was in 2010, back when people were throwing tomatoes at town hall meetings."

Tax Cuts

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—the notorious "super committee"—was anything but as it gloriously failed to hammer out a bipartisan plan to reduce the federal budget deficit. They could not reform the tax code, and one of the stumbling blocks was the Bush-era tax cuts.