Congressional Leaders Working With Biden on Avoiding Rail Strike

The top four members of Congress met with President Joe Biden on Nov. 29 in a bid to avoid a rail strike and come to other agreements regarding the lame duck session.
The top two Democrats in Congress and one of the top Republicans, after meeting with Biden, said legislation will likely pass that would impose an agreement on rail workers and operators.
“All four of us agreed we got to resolve this rail shut down as quickly as possible and that we would work together on doing it,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate majority leader, told reporters outside the White House in Washington after the meeting….}