Worst. Congress. Ever.
Analysis: Congress accomplishes less than than ‘Do Nothing Congress’
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS
McClatchy Washington BureauDecember 21, 2013
WASHINGTON – Days before adjournment and the year-end holiday recess, Sen. Lindsey Graham was hardly feeling the holiday spirit.
As usual, the Senate was limping through a slow legislative slog: passing a small-scale bipartisan budget agreement that averts another federal government shutdown and softens the blow of sequestration, meandering through a defense authorization bill and trudging through a slew of judicial and administrative nominations.
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When they wrap up their business, senators will join members of the House of Representatives in returning to their districts with a dubious achievement they'll not likely brag about to their constituents: being part of one of the least productive Congresses ever.
The 113th Congress is heading home and into the history books with a record of legislative futility. By the time the Senate finishes its business, this Congress will have passed slightly more than 57 bills into law. It’s on course to surpass the first session of 104th Congress, which passed 88 bills into law, in terms of its low productivity.
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