Worst. Congress. Ever
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
12/10/2013
Despite rumors of a ‘deal’, “The major issues that we think are necessary to jump-start the American economy continue to languish,” reflects one lobbyist on what Bloomberg reports will be Congress’s least productive year ever, with just 56 pieces of legislation signed into law so far. The former record low, reached in 1995, was 88 new laws. 2013 was supposed to be the year lawmakers, free of immediate election pressures, would revamp U.S. immigration policy, pass a debt-lowering budget and expedite a pair of trade deals. Instead, partisan rancor grew deeper; and to make matters worse, the politicians took plenty of time off – the House has been out 191 days, and the Senate 199 days.
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