Apparently, the 113th Congress of the United States approved more legislation in the last week it sat, than it had done in many preceding months ~ Most of these laws passed were temporary extensions of existing tax measures, lasting just two more weeks (until the end of 2014), when the 'negotiations' to try and approve some 'sensible' taxes will resume.
So this makes 113th session one of the least productive of Congresses in modern history.
The legislative body approved far fewer bills than the group of lawmakers former President Harry Truman called the “do-nothing Congress.” Those legislators, serving from 1947 to 1949, passed some 900 laws, which is positively speedy compared to this current Congress.
...... this one was actually proud to declare that it passed more than 200 bills into law during the past two years .... which was well short of the worst before it.
So this makes 113th session one of the least productive of Congresses in modern history.
The legislative body approved far fewer bills than the group of lawmakers former President Harry Truman called the “do-nothing Congress.” Those legislators, serving from 1947 to 1949, passed some 900 laws, which is positively speedy compared to this current Congress.
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| Trueman's Do-nothing Congress ... |
...... this one was actually proud to declare that it passed more than 200 bills into law during the past two years .... which was well short of the worst before it.
According to a Gallup Poll released in August 2014, the 113th Congress had the highest disapproval rating of any Congress since 1974, when data first started being collected: 83% of Americans surveyed said that they disapproved of the job Congress was doing, while only 13% said that they approved of what it had done .... another low.
Now there are those who think 'less government' is 'good government', but usually that doesn't include passing no laws at all. During the entire two-year term, the House was in session just 34 weeks, and was deadlocked over 'Obamacare' for most of that .... but that was passed anyway, so the whole exercise was a vast waste of money, time and lots of hot air.
There's a moral in this somewhere ...perhaps that 'its an ill wind that blows nobody any good?'
Now there are those who think 'less government' is 'good government', but usually that doesn't include passing no laws at all. During the entire two-year term, the House was in session just 34 weeks, and was deadlocked over 'Obamacare' for most of that .... but that was passed anyway, so the whole exercise was a vast waste of money, time and lots of hot air.
There's a moral in this somewhere ...perhaps that 'its an ill wind that blows nobody any good?'
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