With just a few short weeks remaining before the end of the 2011 session, Congress has passed its fewest number of bills in at least the last 10 non-election years. According to The Washington Post, the 326 bills passed by the House of Representatives is roughly one-third of the number they passed in 2009 (970) and nearly a quarter of the number passed in 2007 (1,127.) The Senate has approved 368 bills, also well below its typical off-year numbers, and the fewest since 1995.
Maybe it is just me, but Congress has been "helping" us so vigorously that I'm having a little trouble sitting.
But I think you can see our problem when the assumption is that when Congress expands the federal government less by passing fewer bills, that they aren't doing their job.
Since when is expanding the federal government their job?
