Quote of the day--on our current Congress

The current 112th Congress has passed just 151 public laws since it convened in January 2011, the fewest laws in at least six decades. The next-most-unproductive national legislature — the 104th Congress, 1995-1996 — passed 280 public laws. It still found time, under a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, to shut down the federal government for several weeks.

For comparison, the 1947-1948 “do-nothing” Congress attacked by Harry Truman passed 906 public laws.

--Steve Kraske and Dave Helling, from their article "The End of the Middle" in Sunday's Kansas City Star newspaper

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/18/3768596/the-end-of-the-middle-how-the.html