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Yes, President Obama is right. The 113th Congress will be the least productive in history.
Yes, President Obama is right. The 113th Congress will be the least productive in history.By Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/10/president-obama-said-the-113th-congress-is-the-least-productive-ever-is-he-right/?tid=rssfeed
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The truth of the matter is that there really isn't a debate about the pure factual truth of President Obama's assertion on Wednesday night. But, whether a divided Congress should be productive -- as defined by passing bills or making laws -- is a whole different (and much more contentious) debate. In short: Is productivity a good thing?
When we wrote about congressional productivity last summer, Shawn Ryan, press secretary to Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Renacci, penned the counter-argument. He wrote, in part:
"Productive” is a relative term. A small government conservative or a libertarian might argue that the Congress that legislates least, governs best. In other words, just because we aren’t passing legislation doesn’t mean we aren’t being productive.
For example, the Administration has had [to] go around Congress in an attempt to put its environmental agenda in place (admittedly, that is something it probably would have had to do even with Democratic majorities in both chambers, but they have more political cover going around a Republican controlled House). That puts those policies on much rockier legal standing, assuming they can be implemented solely through the regulatory side at all. That’s a good thing if you disagree with those environmental policies and that outcome is the direct result of Congressional inaction.
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Ones behind the Koch brothers need to go. The Koch brothers want it all including any of the taxes from the billions they have by taking it from the poor. How do you change someones mind like that, other than through elections.
