The Senate agreed Wednesday to let lawmakers go home for the last few days of the election campaign, abandoning hopes of finishing the budget before Americans go to the polls. That decision must still be accepted by the House and President Clinton, but House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., acknowledged that "we're not making a lot of progress" and "it looks like maybe a cooling-off period is not a bad idea." If the House goes along with the Senate action, Congress would reconvene Nov. 14 for the sixth lame-duck session in the past 30 years. The last such session was in 1998, when the House met to vote on articles of impeachment against Clinton.