The House comes back to Washington today after a months long recess.
Big picture items have to get done within two weeks: namely passing the budget, or risking a government shutdown.
But the two chambers have two completely separate spending universes. And Monday is a significant day - 22 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
As Ximena Bustillo reports, most new recruits to active duty military service were either very young or not yet born when the attacks took place.
A New York firefighter works in the debris from the collapse of the twin Towers in 2001. Photo: AFP
Ximena Bustillo is a politics reporter for NPR News, based in Washington.
