Love 'em or hate 'em Congress has been at it's most productive in years.
Ezra Klein - What the 111th Congress has done -- and what it still has to do
What the 111th Congress has done -- and what it still has to do
The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 -- that is to say, the financial-regulation bill -- passed the Senate last night. That adds one more achievement to what has been an extraordinarily productive Congress. Since Barack Obama's inauguration, we've seen passage of the $800 billion stimulus bill, the most significant health-care reform bill since the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid, the most far-reaching financial-regulation bill since the Great Depression, numerous jobs bills, Ted Kennedy's SERVE America Act, tobacco-regulation legislation, and credit-card regulation legislation. The process has felt slow, and the products have been imperfect, but the impression of sclerosis is not matched to the reality of the Congress.
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