Do Nothing Congress

[Perianne]

...
Proposals to deal with the minimum wage, jobs legislation and fixes to the Voting Rights Act or No Child Left Behind aren't even being discussed seriously.
...

Adds Julian Zelizer, a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University: "Even the Do-Nothing Congress did a lot of stuff involving the Cold War. This Congress has literally done almost nothing. They haven't addressed the big issues, and they haven't addressed even the small problems."


Isn't a "do-nothing" Congress the best type of Congress?

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/08/the-do-nothing-congress

[tailfins]

Start replying that it's the "do no harm" Congress.

[Kathianne]

Isn't a "do-nothing" Congress the best type of Congress?

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/08/the-do-nothing-congress

The founders purposefully made it difficult for laws to be passed, not to mention amending the Constitution or approval of treaties.

They were 'revolutionaries' that recognized that time cooled rash decisions in normal circumstances. The words they chose, the numbers they used were deliberate.