What’s Congress up to?
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Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group, released an analysis this morning of the 260 laws enacted by the current Congress since it took office in January 2007.
According to the group, 74 of the laws “were naming post offices and many more were for such critical legislation as requiring the flag be flown on Father’s Day.’’ The legislation also includes support for National Corvette Day and National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day.
“This Congress is on pace to produce fewer laws than any Congress in the last decade,’’ wrote Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “Interestingly, the most comparable Congress is also the last time the House flipped – the 104th Congress (after the ‘94 elections) who also faced a president of the opposing party.’‘
Yesterday, Rasmussen Reports released a new poll that found only 9 percent of voters rate Congress as doing a good or excellent job.
Fifty two percent surveyed indicated Congress is doing a poor job, tying a previous record high for that negative rating.
According to Rasmussen, “Just 12 percent of voters think Congress has passed any legislation to improve life in this country over the past six months.’’
So what has been the most notable action recently taken by Congress?
Some might say it was the emergency funding bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of this year. That bill—recently signed into law by President Bush—included a new GI Bill of Rights that covers the cost of college at a public university for returning military veterans.
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on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 12:59 pm by Brian Tumulty.
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