Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Every week in this newsletter we update you on our activities in Washington and around the country. There’s another word for this information – tidings, which means news. It’s a term usually trotted out only at Christmas time. And then it takes on lustrous connotations. In the English carol, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” we find these lyrics: We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year. Good tidings we bring To you and your kin; The word appears in another English carol, “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.” God rest you merry,...