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Summary: Can it be that an actual budget deal is met with no government shutdown? That's what it looks like as Congress returns to Capitol Hill this week. Although more of the impeachment paroxysm is forthcoming, to say nothing of Christmas. For a look ahead, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the Fulcrum Editor-in-Chief David Hawkings.