With a largely unfinished agenda and four weeks until Election Day, Republican congressional leaders had sought some last-minute accomplishments in September to demonstrate their party’s ability to lead before the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 7. Democrats, on the other hand, lacked any motivation to pass anything that resembled a legislative achievement. In the end, it was a month full of legislative posturing and political grandstanding.
 
Facing their biggest challenge since they took control of the House in 1994, Republicans begin the final month before the midterm elections in serious danger of losing 15-plus seats that would ...