06 Nov 2018
Paul Kane and Derek Willis wrote in ProPublica and The Washington Post this week on disfunction in Congress. They describe Congress' decreased productivity, in part by using data from the U.S. project:
Committees meet to consider legislation less than ever. As recently as 2005 and 2006, House committees met 449 times to consider actual legislation, and Senate committees met 252 times; by 2015 and 2016, those numbers plummeted to 254 and 69 times, respectively, according to data compiled by the Policy Agendas Project at the University of Texas.
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