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The do nothing left

Old Ridge Runner

Old Ridge Runner

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/04/report-democrat-controlled-senate-laziest-20-years/493996

For those who need proof that the Senate was a do-nothing chamber in 2011 beyond the constant partisan bickering and failure to pass a federal budget, there is now hard evidence that it was among the laziest in 20 years.

In her latest report, Secretary of the Senate Nancy Erickson revealed a slew of data that put the first session of the 112th Senate at the bottom of Senates since 1992 in legislative productivity, an especially damning finding considering that it wasn’t an election year when congressional action is usually lower.

For example, while the Democratically-controlled Senate was in session for 170 days, it spent an average of just 6.5 hours in session on those days, the second lowest since 1992. Only 2008 logged a lower average of 5.4 hours a day, and that’s when action was put off because several senators were running for president, among them Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain.

On the passage of public laws, arguably its most important job, the Senate notched just 90, the second lowest in 20 years, and it passed a total of 402 measures, also the second lowest. And as the president has been complaining about, the chamber confirmed a 20-year low of 19,815 judicial and other nominations.

The Secretary of the Senate’s office didn’t comment on the statistics, but it did provide a comparison to action in 2009, the first term of the 111th Senate, when many of President Obama’s initiatives were considered by the Democratically-controlled House and Senate. By comparison the number of Senate bills offered last year was down 30 percent, the number of amendments offered sank 55 percent, and the number of roll call votes dropped 40 percent
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No fear, with a lot of the teabagger supporters losing their seats, the 113th Congress, working with President Obama, will get a lot more done. The American people are getting sick of the republicons and their "veto by filibuster" crap.
 
jammer said:
No fear, with a lot of the teabagger supporters losing their seats, the 113th Congress, working with President Obama, will get a lot more done. The American people are getting sick of the republicons and their "veto by filibuster" crap.
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The same old yammering from the same old lefties, wo can't or won't do their jobs.
 
It's the do nothing right that's the problem. The left of the Senate can't do anything without Republican cooperation, and Republicans have put partisan politics ahead of the nation, and are unwilling to cooperate with anything. Even when the Dems bend over backwards to try to find middle ground, as when they pushed market-driven healthcare reform, of the kind previously championed by the Heritage Foundation and Mitt Romney, they can't get a single Republican vote. Until the people throw some of the do-nothing Republicans out of office, I expect more of the same.
 
don't trouble the poor thing with inconvenient facts, like the existence of the party of "NO!", that has produced what in terms of positive legislation.

They keep sending extreme rightwing legislation over to the senate they know will be DOA.
 
Arkady said:
It's the do nothing right that's the problem. The left of the Senate can't do anything without Republican cooperation, and Republicans have put partisan politics ahead of the nation, and are unwilling to cooperate with anything. Even when the Dems bend over backwards to try to find middle ground, as when they pushed market-driven healthcare reform, of the kind previously championed by the Heritage Foundation and Mitt Romney, they can't get a single Republican vote. Until the people throw some of the do-nothing Republicans out of office, I expect more of the same.
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Yep, it always the fault of the right when the left can't get their act together. Never mind the fact that the left in the Senate hasn't passed a budget in 3 years, that is if their last attempt has failed. Stop complaining, stop blaming and do something for a change.
 
No, it stopped Obama's communist trek in it's tracks.
Thank God the House landslided to the Republicans.... and if you saw the financial summit Obama hosted it was VERY clear the Republicans are far smarter and far more savvy to the USA economy than the Democrats... it was so lopsided it was embarassing the Democrats even showed up.



NightSwimmer said:
The outcome of the 2010 elections was bad for the nation. Can't argue with that.
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Yes - Too bad the Senate was not secured by the Republicans - we got stuck with demonic dem leader Harry Reid blocking all Republican House bills.
 
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