Why are we paying them again?
by digby
Keeping with our afternoon theme of do-nothing (but legislate vaginas)congress:
The current Congress has had just 15 bills signed into law so far, the fewest in recent history. This is not an insignificant feat. After all, the 112th Congress (2011-2013) was the most unproductive since the 1940s. But even that Congress, by this time in its first year, had 23 bills signed into law. And the low number can’t be blamed on President Barack Obama. He’s vetoed just two pieces of legislation during his time in office, both in 2010. The Huffington Post compiled the data from GovTrack, which lists laws since 1973. Back then, significantly more legislation made its way into public law. The height was the 94th (1975-1976) and 95th (1977-1978) legislative sessions.
Why doesn’t anyone care about this? Is it that we don’t think they’ll do anything good so they might as well do nothing? I’m honestly confused as to why people in this country aren’t more upset about this. We have huge problems and things aren’t getting much better. The government is doing exactly the opposite of what it should do in that circumstance. And yet … crickets. It’s as if the whole country’s asleep.
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