Congress will return to Capitol Hill early next week to a docket filled with energy and environment-related items, including a bill to fund the Environmental Protection Agency in Fiscal Year 2012 and a series of measures stymying upcoming EPA regulations for coal-fired power plants. Legislators returning to Washington are facing the lowest public approval ratings ever measured by Gal-lup-only 13 percent of those polled last month approved of the job Congress has been doing following the debt ceiling debates. But Republicans are confident that their regulatory relief agenda-particularly efforts targeting the EPA-will resonate with voters frustrated with the slow rate of the nation's economic recovery.
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