Congress Does Next to Nothing in 2019
Dec 25 2019Complaints that impeachment has blocked the Congress from useful work on behalf of the nation are made without reference to facts, which are that the House of Representatives has been passing bills all along — almost 400 since the Democrats became the majority at the beginning of 2019 — and that it is the Republican-controlled Senate — only about to be involved in impeachment for the first time — that has done nothing. Majority Leader McConnell has kept bills from even receiving a vote. Compared to its usual output of 150 to 250 bills a year, Congress has passed only 70 in 2019, and 10 of those were for renaming federal facilities.
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