#BoehnerStyle: Worst Congress ever?

The Hill asks an important question on today's front page – is the 113^th Congress the Worst Congress ever?

The short answer: yes.

From The Hill:

…The most memorable action taken by this Congress was last year's shutdown.

It is not that passing lots of laws necessarily makes a "good Congress," and many people would argue that the opposite is true. But even measures that both parties' leaders want to get done, such as immigration reform, tax reform and transportation legislation have scant chance of reaching Obama's desk…

"It would be hard to find a worse one, for sure," said Richard Baker, the Senate's first historian…

The 113th Congress passed fewer substantial laws in its first session than any other Congress in the last 20 years, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.

Drew DeSilver, who conducted the Pew analysis, said Congress enacted only 62 substantive laws in 2013.

Baker, the former Senate historian, said you have to reach back to the Congresses of 1907, or the late 1850s, to find legislative sessions that matched the current one in vitriol and lack of cooperation.

The American people deserve a government that works. House Republicans should set aside their partisan ideological agenda and work with Democrats to pass legislation that addresses our nation's priorities.