The current Republican-led House of Representatives is the Second Worst in History

The Republican-led House of Representatives is officially in recess until 2024 and the results are in: it’s literally the second-least productive iteration of Congress in a century.

In 2023, House Republicans were only able to pass 22 bills which made it through the Senate to be signed into law by President Biden.

The sobering statistic is a damning indictment of the GOP’s inability to effectively and responsibly govern. 

As MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explains, Republicans today only narrowly beat the record held by Congress under President Herbert Hoover from 1931 to 1932. That iteration only passed 21 bills into law.

But, Maddow emphasizes, that Congress was only in session for three months that year due to the Great Depression. 

In other words, the Congress riddled by the Great Depression and which only met for a ¼ of the calendar year was effectively as productive as a Republican-led House which met year round and wasn’t saddled with a devastating depression. 

The GOP’s failure to effectively use their majority responsibly vindicates consistent polling across 2023 that the vast majority of Americans believe House Republicans have been focused on the wrong priorities—such as impeaching President Biden, investigating his civilian son Hunter, and wasting precious time and political capital on stunts which risk debt default and government shutdowns.

As the next election approaches, it remains to be seen whether eligible voters will remember House Republicans’ irresponsibility—and punish them accordingly at the ballot box.

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