Congressional Performance Quotes

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

A new Gallup poll shows that only 1 in 10 Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. A 10 percent approval rating is about the same approval rating that rabies has.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

If Congress is unable to do its job and pass a federal budget, then I do not believe we should receive a salary.

No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

Rarely in American history has any particular Congress been held in high esteem …

If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

If we have a mediocre Congress—even when it manages to accomplish something—it is because of the people in it and the culture they have created.