Pew Research: “With the 113th Congress now in the history books, we conducted a final tally of our nation’s legislative productivity — in terms of both total laws passed and of substance. Our calculation finds that the 113th just barely avoided the dubious title of ‘least productive Congress in modern history.’ But that’s only because of an exceptionally active lame duck session.”
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