The Home Republican majority handed solely 20 payments that had been signed into legislation, a stage of failure to control that ranks as a few of the worst in American historical past.
Simply 20 payments have been handed by each chambers and signed into legislation this 12 months, with one other 4 at present awaiting President Biden’s signature, in keeping with the Quorum information.
That’s far under even traditionally unproductive first years: The 104th, 112th and 113th Congresses, wherein Republicans managed one or each chambers with Democrats Invoice Clinton and Barack Obama within the White Home, handed between 70 and 73 legal guidelines.
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The overwhelming majority had been uncontroversial payments that handed both by unanimous consent or with minimal opposition, together with a number of measures to rename Veterans Affairs clinics and one other to mint a coin commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps.
Republicans misplaced a month of labor time this 12 months first attempting to elect Kevin McCarthy speaker after which looking for somebody to switch him after he was fired.
The Home Republican majority has spent extra time investigating Joe and Hunter Biden than passing laws. Even when Home Republicans got here again after the vacations and determined that they want to govern, they wouldn’t be capable of as a result of they’ll’t agree on something.
Republicans lucked right into a slender Home majority in 2022. As an alternative of working exhausting to point out the American folks why they need to preserve it, the Home GOP retains displaying voters why they have to be kicked to the curb.
The present Home majority was almost 4 instances much less efficient than the Congress that dedicated itself to obstructing every part that Barack Obama did.
2023 was a historic stage of failure for Home Republicans and 2024 will probably be even worse.
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