{"id":2850,"date":"2015-01-14T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:46:03","slug":"five-reasons-why-you-cant-judge-a-congress-by-counting-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/five-reasons-why-you-cant-judge-a-congress-by-counting-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Why You Can&#8217;t Judge a Congress by Counting Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2851\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/five-reasons-why-you-cant-judge-a-congress-by-counting-laws\/the-hill-newspaper\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"850,315\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Hill Newspaper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper-300x111.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2851\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"The Hill Newspaper\" width=\"850\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg 850w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/people\/kevin-kosar\/\">Kevin R. Kosar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the past six weeks, the media has bid a raucous good riddance to the 113th Congress. They have trashed it for its hyper-partisanship, for shutting down the government and for being in session so seldom. They also point to Congress&#8217; 14 percent public approval rating. But most of all, the 113th is trashed for being \u201cunproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the disdain for the 113th Congress is understandable, critics err when they tar Congress based on a bogus metric: the number of laws passed&#8230;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/politics\/229396-five-reasons-why-you-cant-judge-a-congress-by-counting-laws\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin R. Kosar For the past six weeks, the media has bid a raucous good riddance to the 113th Congress. They have trashed it for its hyper-partisanship, for shutting down the government and for being in session so seldom. They also point to Congress&#8217; 14 percent public approval rating. 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