June 19th, 2012
07:36 AM ET
11 years ago
Congress: Same hours, half the work
Washington (CNN) - The current Congress has worked just as many days as its legislative predecessors. It just has a lot less to show for it.
According to a CNN analysis of congressional records that looked at bills that became law and the number of days lawmakers worked, members of the House have spent more than 150 days and Senate just over 140 days in session so far, comparable to previous Congresses at this point in the term.
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Where are the jobs this congress promised to tirelessly create?
It time to start cutting their Pay. Republican are doing a good job showing American's that they're not to work for them. It to vote all republicans out of office.
Yep, the do nothing congress. So will they give themselves a raise again?
Must be nice to work half a year and get paid for the hole year, and congress talk about to much spending. America is great
Get rid of the ENTIRE GOP HOUSE!!!
I remembered when Obama got in power he had the Congress for about 8 months before the people elected brown to the Senate and a record filabusting campaign started that stopped a 4 percent growth, which had just came up from a 9 percent decline, in its track, the country have not grown on that scale since then. I know these repubs will get about 65 percent of the white votes who hold all the power in our country. so these repubs feels they can instruct and blame this president, because they know what ever they do, they will still have the power behind them, even though, their policies will destroy our middle class as we know it