Healthy Congress Index
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Healthy Congress Index provides Americans with crucial metrics for evaluating Congress’s ability to effectively legislate and govern. It compares results against past Congresses and will be updated on a quarterly basis. The index represents a new, long-term effort to bring accountability to Congress and answer the question: how is Congress governing?
The period covered by this installment is January through the end of December 2015, which marks the end of the First Session of the 114th Congress.
Some Returns to Regular Order, Some Departures in 2015
February 2, 2016
At the end of its first year, the 114th Congress has shown signs it is conducting business differently than its recent predecessors. The legislative process has begun to improve in some areas while other elements have seen little to no improvement. Those parts of the process that take place off the floor of the House and Senate improved, but more often than not it was on the floor where gridlock remained on display.
As 2016 begins to unfold and the pressures of a presidential election year loom over the 114th Congress, its leaders and members will need to pay particular attention to the number of days spent working in Washington and the way business is conducted to keep this progress moving forward.
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KEYWORDS: 114TH CONGRESS, HEALTHY CONGRESS INDEX