Title: Lawmakers taking vacation til Jan.

" It is only November but lawmakers are already wrapping it up for the year and a couple of hours they will be on holiday break. Critics including the governor day and that now is not the time along -- an art political editor Joe Battenfeld live outside of our Beacon Hill studio which is. Credit and how it into the I. Wouldn't be getting out. You -- I jumped."

" I'm not that they basically across anyway Maria in a few hours as you mentioned everyone's going to be taking off from the billion apparently -- time for their Christmas shopping but they're leaving behind a lot of unfinished business."

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" Another seemingly ordinary workday in Boston right. Not for the date led to late or where believe it or not it last call for 2009. Let the lakers broke the bike complaint from -- lawmaker. Is there for a in the governor's -- is a journey Intel. Annual weary with out taking action on crime bill and education reform. -- To it and get work done. And that not all to date and it refusing to take up a Bill Murray -- the death penalty ruling it was out of order. Think we missed the vote -- another very very fortunate and while it finished up the house spent hours that last day in three milling around I'll always how Robert the Leo saying lawmakers would not like Carter bullet did tell. -- year and jeopardy. Millions of dollars in federal aid but it worked to get get to deal with the problem. So while the rest of us go back to work the house will be empty and early Chris a gift for those overworked legs later."

" Ratings -- right now we're we're we're having economic problems and their economic. Yet we -- what a couple weeks ago with the dog like -- and laughing matter and -- and you do like down there Xerox. Hell yeah."

" Evelyn and other a lot of and appeared -- despite that's. Might work schedules eager to Leo is a the governor because you went to art -- highlighting that you just about a mile from the only goes on though not everyone -- in the holiday spirit just yet. Life and how does it -- Joe Battenfeld Fox25 news."