Neither chamber gave its members many opportunities to offer amendments to legislation. The first year of the 115th Congress mostly saw breakdowns in the legislative process and Congress’s ability to function. We will track 1) progress on the budget and appropriations processes, and 2) the amount of oversight performed by Congress measured by programs receiving appropriations after authorizations have expired.
New in 2017, two added measures of the index will further examine how well the current Congress is functioning relative to those in the past. The key measures of the index include: the number of days Congress spent on legislative business and how effectively Congress followed regular order by allowing a substantial committee process, robust floor debate, the ability of members to offer amendments, and resolving of House and Senate differences in conference committees. The measures track key recommendations released in June 2014 by BPC’s Commission on Political Reform (CPR), which was created to investigate the causes and consequences of America’s partisan political divide and make recommendations to reinvigorate a political process that can work during a time of hyperpolarized politics. The period covered by this installment is January 3, 2017, through January 3, 2018, and the numbers presented here are cumulative, unless otherwise noted. The index provides Americans with crucial metrics for evaluating Congress’s ability to effectively legislate and govern and compares the data against past congresses. This installment of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Healthy Congress Index is the fourth analysis of the 115th Congress, covering the entire First Session.
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