‘This Congress is an Embarrassment!’ Dan Abrams Absolutely Nukes House and Senate With Bonkers Stats on Their Historic Futility

NewsNation’s Dan Abrams ripped into the 118th Congress, accusing both major parties of being “dominated by members who want to score cheap political points and hone their personal brand.”

“Everybody loves to hate Congress, right? But this is a different level,” Abrams said on Dan Abrams Live on Wednesday evening.

Abrams, the founder of Mediaite, highlighted the House of Representatives shooting down that very day a procedural vote on reauthorizing FISA.

“The House members who voted no today weren’t voting no on a bill. They were voting no on talking about a bill. It is the seventh time since 2023 that what’s called a rules vote has been defeated. Prior to this, a rules vote hadn’t failed since 2002,” Abrams reported.

He highlighted just how unproductive this current Congress has been by comparing it to the least productive Congress of the last 50 years, the 112th Congress.

Citing data from GovTrack, Abrams reported that Congress is on track to enact 71 pieces of legislation at its current pace. They’ve currently pushed through 47 pieces of legislation since Jan. 2023.

The least productive Congress of the last half century was the 112th Congress, and they managed to push through more than 200 pieces of legislation from Jan. 2011 to Jan. 2013.

“Think about that. The present Congress is on track to be four times less productive than the least productive Congress of the last 50 years,” Abrams said.

He highlighted some of the accomplishments of the current Congress, but described them as peanuts compared to the issues that should be tackled. Among the wins for the 118th Congress are passing legislation to rename a federal building after Rosa Parks and the creation of a coin commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps.

Congress, Abrams argued, should be more focused on passing legislation on issues like the border, citing the bipartisan border bill pushed by President Joe Biden that stalled this year.

Abrams then highlighted two pieces of failed legislation, one being an effort to rename Washington’s Dulles Airport after Donald Trump. Abrams played footage of Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) saying on Newsmax that the legislation was meant to “honor” Trump and Republicans should put their admiration for him in the “face” of Democrats.

Abrams also noted a bill from across the aisle proposing renaming a federal prison after Trump. He played footage of Reps. Gary Connolly (D-VA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) talking and laughing about the measure on MSNBC.

“This is what our legislators are doing. They’re not passing bills that can actually do something for all of us. They’re playing games with their media counterparts,” Abrams said. “The biggest potential accomplishment, a bipartisan compromise on immigration that could have at least helped the disaster that is the border, was killed because the extremists don’t want progress. They want talking points.”

The only good news for the “marginalized moderate majority,” he added, is upcoming elections for most of the legislators that make up the current standstill Congress.

“They aren’t just doing nothing. They’re doing damage,” Abrams said. “They’re tossing partisan grenades and then complaining about the shrapnel wounds. This Congress is an embarrassment. We should all be ashamed. The silver lining? Each and every member of the House of Representatives and many senators are up for reelection this year. We’ll see how that goes.”

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