The Least Productive Congress Since The Great Depression

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The MAGA/Freedom Caucus controlled congress cannot get anything done.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/least-productive-congress-since-great-depression_n_65553d38e4b0e4767012b6df

With only 21 bills making it into law halfway into November, the 118th Congress, controlled by Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate, is on the most sluggish pace to make law since the Congress that met during 1931 and 1932.

Back then, Herbert Hoover was president, the Great Depression had started and talking movies were still new.....

The lack of productivity puts a punctuation mark on the first half of a Congress that has managed to do the bare minimum ― fund the government, raise the debt ceiling ― while also embarrassing itself with the first-ever ouster of a House speaker mid-session, a subsequent three-week long search for a new one and most recently, a threatened fight between a senator and a committee witness.

The center of the embarrassment has been the GOP-controlled House, which has struggled to pass anything of consequence with its razor-thin four-seat Republican majority. The Senate, meanwhile, has been content to deal with the rare legislation the House sends over while grasping for bipartisan deals on immigration and aid to Ukraine.....

Of the 21 laws made by Congress so far this year, one was merely to keep the government open, which expires Friday (P.L. 118-15); two were to name local Veterans Affairs clinics after people (P.L. 118-12, 118-16); one was to require the Treasury Department to mint a commemorative coin marking the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps (P.L. 118-10); and one was to nullify a local law passed by the city council of Washington (P.L. 118-1).

[mcar]

1. Compare to the tremendous accomplishments of the previous Congress

Nancy Pelosi is the GOAT.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. . @chiproytx got one thing right - the MAGA GOP has accomplished nothing.

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[erronis]

3. This isn't accurate. The term "Congress" means both the Senate and the House.

The House under (R)epuglicon leadership has been totally ineffective at leadership - on purpose.

The Senate seems willing to govern but I don't trust the (R) membership one bit.

[BigmanPigman]

4. They could never govern their way out of a brown paper bag

even with a pair of scissors. Morons and losers (those in office and those who put them there).

[Rhiannon12866]

5. No big surprise, they have a singular agenda - answering to TFG and opposing the Democrats