WASHINGTON — Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week facing a huge agenda with no easy solutions.

First, Congress has to figure out how to postpone an end-of-the-month deadline that would double health insurance costs for 24 million working Americans. It also needs to approve annual spending on military construction; consider sanctions on Russia; regulate “name, image, and likeness” payments in college sports.

And there are just 12 scheduled work days — 11 in the Senate — before this year’s session ends December 18.

Even once that’s done, Congress must pass spending bills before Jan. 30 or the government could shut down — again.

At the center of it all is House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from the Shreveport area who leads a GOP majority of only two votes. And that majority

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