Congress Has Passed 13 Laws This Year

[Common]

Congress passed 13 laws this years, None has been about jobs.
Just read this list of what laws are important to pass for our congress and then think about ALL the americans out of work, All the americans that cant find a job have no unemployment left and are on food stamps. Think about the debt this country is in and then READ the list of the only laws they could pass in a single year.
This is not a point your finger blame game thread, this is a congress collectively sucks thread.

In the six months and four days since the 113th Congress began, it has passed 13 laws. And, despite lawmakers constantly beating the drum on boosting jobs, none of the new measures have been focused on employment. Here's a list of what the 113th Congress has passed in its first six months:

1. H.R.41: To temporarily increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for carrying out the National Flood Insurance Program.
   Sponsor: Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] (introduced 1/3/2013) Cosponsors (44)
2. H.R.152: Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013
   Sponsor: Rep Rogers, Harold [KY-5] (introduced 1/4/2013) Cosponsors (None)
3. H.R.325: No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013
   Sponsor: Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] (introduced 1/21/2013) Cosponsors (1)
4. S.47: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013
   Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 1/22/2013) Cosponsors (61)
5. H.R.307: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013
   Sponsor: Rep Rogers, Mike J. [MI-8] (introduced 1/18/2013) Cosponsors (5)
6. H.R.933: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013
   Sponsor: Rep Rogers, Harold [KY-5] (introduced 3/4/2013) Cosponsors (None)
7. S.716: A bill to modify the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online access to certain financial disclosure statements and related forms.
   Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [NV] (introduced 4/11/2013) Cosponsors (None)
8. H.R.1246: District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer Vacancy Act
   Sponsor: Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] (introduced 3/19/2013) Cosponsors (None)
9. H.R.1765: Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013
   Sponsor: Rep Latham, Tom [IA-3] (introduced 4/26/2013) Cosponsors (None)
10. H.R.1071: To specify the size of the precious-metal blanks that will be used in the production of the National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coins.
    Sponsor: Rep Hanna, Richard L. [NY-22] (introduced 3/12/2013) Cosponsors (2)
11. H.R.360: To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where these 4 little Black girls' ultimate sacrifice served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
    Sponsor: Rep Sewell, Terri A. [AL-7] (introduced 1/23/2013) Cosponsors (301)
12. H.R.258: Stolen Valor Act of 2013
    Sponsor: Rep Heck, Joseph J. [NV-3] (introduced 1/15/2013) Cosponsors (127)
13. S.982: Freedom to Fish Act
    Sponsor: Sen Alexander, Lamar [TN] (introduced 5/16/2013) Cosponsors (3)

http://www.nationaljournal.com/natio...fid=mostViewed

[Chris]

13 too many.

[Mainecoons]

They should just spend the next 10 years repealing laws.

[Chris]

They should just spend the next 10 years repealing laws.

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
~Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative

[Peter1469]

It is too bad that Goldwater got steamrolled in the elections.

[Chris]

Best President we never had.

[Peter1469]

He would have been like Calvin Coolidge I think.

[jillian]

It is too bad that Goldwater got steamrolled in the elections.

goldwater would roll over in his grave at what is called "libertarian' today.

[Ransom]

Washington and Jefferson would spin in their respective graves as well given today's definition of neo-con.

[jillian]

er... no