ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lame-duck lawmakers are returning to Washington where they face a stacked agenda and not much time to get it all done.

Their to-do list includes keeping the government running into the new year, renewing expired tax breaks for individuals and businesses and approving a defense policy measure that has passed for more than 50 years in a row. They hope to get it done in two weeks without stumbling into a government shutdown.

Also pending are President Barack Obama’s requests for money to combat Islamic State militants, battle Ebola and deal with unaccompanied Central American children who have crossed into the U.S.

On the agenda, too, are renewing the government’s terrorism risk insurance program and extending the ban on state and federal taxes on access to the Internet.