03-25-2019, 10:44 AM
(03-25-2019, 10:33 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Is that what our government is for?
Huh...Completely forgot about that.
I thought it was meant to just be a soap opera that we watch at 6:30 each night. It's going into at least its 19th year on air, right?
We actually really started to see a dip with the 96th Congress, which was the 1979-1980 biennium: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
I'm curious what prior data would show, though. I need to dig a bit more for that statistical information.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR