Just 38 bills were passed by Congress this year

Independent, UK -  When President Harry Truman ran for re-election in 1948, he railed against a “do-nothing” 80th Congress that passed 906 separate bills into law over a two-year period, including the landmark Taft-Hartley union regulation law and the 1947 National Security Act that created the modern U.S. military establishment.

More than 75 years later, Truman would have a much easier time making the same argument against the 119th Congress.

During President Donald Trump’s whirlwind first year back in office, the Republican-led House and Senate has largely sat idle as the 47th president has usurped authorities once considered the exclusive domain of the legislature while doing just over 4 percent of the work done by their historically-maligned predecessors, sending a paltry 38 bills to the president’s desk to be signed into law.