Boehner Keeps Speaker Job as New Congress Begins
Both the House and Senate have gaveled in for the 113th Congress and House Speaker John Boehner learned he’ll be keeping his job.
FOX News Radio’s Jared Halpern reports from Capitol Hill:
The 112th Congress, the group finished today, was the least productive since the 1940’s.
Just 219 bills passed since 2011 were signed into law. Compare that with the 383 bills the session before that and 460 the Congress before that.
President Harry Truman dubbed the 80th Congress do-nothing. That group passed 906 bills that became law.
The 112th was plagued by bitter partisanship that led to government shutdown stand-offs and of course the fiscal cliff.
It took a toll on popularity as well. The 112th’s approval ratings hovering in the teens and below.
On Capitol Hill, Jared Halpern, FOX News Radio.
