Should congress refrain from business during the lame-duck-session?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

As with so much else about America (the lax gun laws and broader culture of violence, the higher levels of religiosity than Western Europe, the Presidential system itself), the practice of lame-duck periods is a New World thing that seems bizarre because it's not usually seen in combination with being a longstanding developed, wealthy democracy. However, even in other New World countries, the process of actually counting the votes to begin with is not as ridiculously drawn-out and angst-riddled as it is here.