Congress didn't do everything it set out to in 2009.

As part of its annual list of "Dids and Didn'ts," CQ Weekly compiled a list of a dozen projects left on the 111th Congress' plate at the end of the first session.

The list includes a few high profile items, such as overhauling the health care system, regulating greenhouse gases and regulating financial services.

But it also includes a few smaller items you may have missed.

Here's the list:

• Negotiate the final compromises on overhauling the nation’s health care system, centered on an expansion of medical insurance coverage, which was President Obama’s top first-year domestic priority.

• Complete legislation to combat global warming, mainly by creating a cap-and-trade system for carbon dioxide emissions.

• Finish an overhaul of the regulation of financial services, in part by creating a consumer-focused oversight agency.

• Grant unions easier federal regulations for organizing workplaces.

• Expand the authority of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the safety of the food supply.

• Update the laws authorizing improvements to airports, highways and mass transit systems.

• Alter the tax treatment of estates before the onset of the one-year-only repeal of all estate taxes in 2010.

• Extend an assortment of tax breaks before their expiration at the end of the year.

• Revive the debate on overhauling federal immigration policy.

• Enact Obama’s plan to make the federal government the sole originator of student loans.

• Grant the District of Columbia a full-fledged seat in the House.

• Increase the limit on the federal debt by a sufficient amount to permit new government borrowing after February 2010

-- Ryan Teague Beckwith, Congress.org