Barack Obama, the US president, is scheduled to return to Washington on Monday after a Christmas family vacation in Hawaii.<br /><br />After ending 2010 on a successful note he will now face the challenge of a dramatically different US Congress in the year ahead.<br /><br />Saddled with a troubled economy and many campaign promises still unfulfilled, Obama will be forced to make compromises with the Republicans in order to get new legislation passed.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane looks at what's next. (Jan 03, 2010)
