Bob Woodward's newest book, entitled "The Price of Politics," highlights the destructive role that politics, as characterized by Woodward, played in the ultimately unsuccessful attempt by President Barack Obama to reach a substantive agreement on a budget deficit reduction plan with the Republican leadership in Congress as well as the Democratic leadership. That fact and the reasons for it documented by Woodward illustrate and explain why the public approval rating of Congress is consistently less than 20 percent in every recent poll regardless of which political party holds the majority.
This is a transcript of Arizona Sen. John's McCain's interview Tuesday (July 8, 2008) with Trib editors and reporters. McCain: ... we've been talking about the economy a lot. And I am convinced, and by the way we have five Nobel Laureates and 200, 300 economists who think that we have a viable proposal that has to do with job creation, that has to do with keeping taxes low, with health -- affordable and available health care, and to making sure that our economy can recover in a robust fashion. Spending in my view is the major contributor to a lot of the economic difficulties we have today. We have allowed spending to get completely out of control. The size of spending has increased by some 40 percent, the greatest increase in "discretionary spending." The greatest increase in size of go...
.. two things Congress never misses, that's a pay raise and recesses, no ...is directly related to the 9 percent approval rating. Don't you think Americans would like to he...
On. top of that, the Vermont Seed Capital Fund, a $5 million pot of public money for investment in start-up companies, made a $200,000 equity investment in eCorp. Fund manager DAVID BRADBURY says eCorp looked like a solid investment that had successfully sold its language training products in France and Malta, but found itself in a "classic cash-flow crunch." Bradbury says he's "very concerned" about the situation - both for the fund's investment and for eCorp employees. Meanwhile, workers pointed out to [TIM ASHE] that the company is still advertising job openings even though it can't make payroll. One such job posting, for a software engineer, was still on the company website Tuesday, promising applicants "competitive salary," "full benefits package," "a top-notch emerging company cul...
...And, with Congress' approval rating at an all-time low of 9 percent -...
Was it the best of deals or the worst of deals? While the final word on the Great Tax Compromise of 2010 will not be written for some years, the immediate road ahead will be more easily navigated if we avoid the potholes of neglect and spin, instead focusing on solutions most Americans think will work. For months, the American public has watched the lackluster performances of Congress (13 percent approval rating) and President Obama (47 percent approval rating) in dealing with the economy. For years, Congress has known that the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 would expire this year. But like the procrastinating student who fails to prepare for finals, leaders of both parties failed to come to consensus and lead. Little wonder even now, despite passing votes, that there is little consensus fro...
It was 2015. Everything had been made nearly perfect. The People's representatives in Congress, leveraging the full weight of their collective 11 percent approval rating, had made it so. Many accepted the decisions of their leaders as a reflection of the leaders' great omniscience.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have pushed through an ethics reform measure. In the future, ethical lapses by House members will be the in the hands of the new Office of Congressional Ethics, an outside panel. Political insiders are brushing the move aside as mere "damage control." With the approval-rating of Congress lower than the approval rating of door-to-door vacuum salesmen, the conventional wisdom is that Congress is simply trying to mend its broken image and win some confidence from voters in an election year.
AMERICANS, according to a Gallup poll on Tuesday, gave Congress an approval rating of 11 percent. It's not hard to see why. It was only a few days ago that the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly backed a deal to briefly extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for the longtime unemployed. Some observers saw the agreement as a rare and welcome display of bipartisanship. After all, it was supported by 89 senators. Now things are sadly back to normal. The Republican-controlled House on Tuesday refused to back the deal and is asking for immediate negotiations with the Senate. Considering that many senators have gone home for the holidays, that's not likely to happen.
where we stand It's ridiculous that members of Congress aren't prohibited from profiting off information attained through their work as legislators. The House and Senate need to rectify this egregious omission. Last month Congress marked a dubious achievement: Its approval rating fell to a single-digit percentage. Just 9 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
Congress carries an approval rating of about 10 percent. This is not hard to understand. The Constitution (Article I, Section 9) forbids bestowing a title of nobility upon any U.S. citizen. That would include members of Congress.
As the Thanksgiving deadline approaches for the congressional super committee on deficit reduction to complete its work, the whole thing is starting to look like a big, fat turkey. It's difficult to gauge which is worse: the committee's lack of progress toward a deal to cut the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion, or the total absence of sunshine on the proceedings. No wonder Congress' approval rating has sunk to single digits, a new low.
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