Steve Forbes has an article with "pieces of legislation Republicans should pass immediately in January."
David Malpass of Encima Global has a characteristically shrewd letter out flagging at least two over-the-horizon issues: the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank expires June 30, 2015, and:
The Fed is likely to maintain its assets at $4.5 trillion into 2016, funding them primarily with the 0.25% IOER (interest on excess reserves) paid to banks for their deposits, over half of which now goes to the U.S. branches of foreign banks. Working against rate hikes, a key question is whether the Fed will be able to increase the IOER to achieve a higher Fed funds rate given the political opposition to banks and the negative impact of an IOER increase on the fiscal deficit.