The Senate and the House of Representatives passed one bill each before taking a recess on September 22.  That’s about 70 days since work started in the Thirteenth Congress.

That record is not very impressive, but not altogether surprising either. Our respected and respectable legislators never could confine themselves to legislating long enough to actually get enough done. After all, legislation never has been the sexiest of their, uh, duties.

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