Unpopular Congress was also very unproductive in 2013

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By Rebecca Kaplan CBS News December 24, 2013, 11: 19 AM

The 113th Congress has had the most unproductive first year in recent memory.

It’s official: the least- popular Congress in recent history is also the least productive, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.

In its first year, the 113th Congress passed just 55 substantive pieces of legislation, 65 laws total counting measures like post-office renaming and commemorative-coin authorizations. It surpassed the 112th Congress, which passed 63 substantive measures in its first year and previously held the title for least-productive in recent memory.

Even the 80th Congress, which President Harry Truman nicknamed the “do-nothing Congress” had passed 395 bills into law by the end of 1947, its first year.

GOP to act quickly on ObamaCare 1099 repeal

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posted at 2:55 pm on January 13, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

The new Republican majority will present an interesting test case for two of Barack Obama’s favorite claims of late with a push to repeal one of the worst problems in ObamaCare.  With the President claiming to be pursuing bipartisanship and training a “singular focus” on job creation, the repeal of the 1099 requirement in last year’s bill gives Obama a chance to score on both points.  Democrats blocked GOP efforts to resolve this issue in the final weeks of the 111th Session despite acknowledging that it had created big problems for small businesses (via the Boss Emeritus):

House Republicans have re-numbered the bill repealing the tax requirement as H.R. 4, signaling it will be one of their first pieces of business.

The bill would repeal language requiring companies, starting in 2012, to report all goods and services transactions valued over $600 to the IRS. Republicans and Democrats, and even the White House, have since said they support repealing this language, which would raise $19 billion over ten years and was included to help pay for the healthcare law.

Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) had already introduced a so-called 1099 repeal bill, which was numbered H.R. 144. By bumping up that bill to H.R. 4, Republicans are making it clear that they will move this bill on an expedited basis. Traditionally, the House majority controls the first ten bills in Congress (H.R. 1 through H.R. 10), and usually reserves those numbers for high-priority items.

Will the 112th Congress Finally Get It Right?

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By Chuck Norris | January 04, 2011 | 00:01

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican colleagues are intensely aware of public fury over how Congress operates. But following a lame-duck Congress that continued with business as usual, will this new Congress finally get it right?

As the 112th Congress officially convenes this week, the questions most of us have on our minds are: Will it finally…

—Reduce government spending?

—Reduce the national deficit?

—Reduce the national debt?

—Reduce earmarks and pork?

—Reduce briberies by lobbyists and special interests?

—Reduce Americans’ taxes?

—Reduce illegal immigration?

—Reduce our foreign entanglements?

—Reduce government overreach into our lives?

—Reduce government lying, cheating and corruption?

—Reduce constitutional disobedience?

…And so stabilize the nation and economy?