House follows Senate lead in ‘performance’

If you think the Senate performance in the First Regular Session is woeful, think again. On March 4, 2014, while the Senate was holding its 61st session, the House was meeting for just its 54th session. The reason for the fewer session days is simple—a big, big problem securing a quorum.

Actually, the number of session days of the House should have been fewer had the majority leader been calling for a roll call in every session day. With the simple expedient of dispensing with the roll call, a quorum to transact business is presumed to exist and all congressmen are deemed present.