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Confidence in Congress has been on the decline ever since Gallup started measuring it in 1973 – a year when 42 percent of Americans claimed a favorable opinion. The latest Gallup poll shows that only 10 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress, which is down from 13 percent in 2012.
“Partisan bickering, gridlock, an inability to get things done – that’s what Americans are complaining about,” Frank Newport, Gallup’s editor-in-chief, told Bloomberg News.
The number ranks “the legislative body last on a list of 16 societal institutions for the fourth straight year,”
TIL that the British crown had at least a 15% approval rating during the revolutionary war - higher than the current approval rating of the US Congress (13%). (upa.pdx.edu)
Historian Robert Calhoon wrote concerning the proportion of loyalists and rebels: Historians' best estimates put the proportion of adult white male loyalists somewhere between 15 and 20 percent. Approximately half the colonists of European ancestry tried to avoid involvement in the struggle — some of them deliberate pacifists, others recent emigrants, and many more simple apolitical folk. The patriots received active support from perhaps 40 to 45 percent of the white populace, and at most no more than a bare majority.[1]
RasmussenAs I said in another thread, the only people who believe the ones who govern are doing a good job are the truly naive and the governors themselves.
Only six percent (6%) of Likely U.S. Voters give Congress good or excellent marks for the job it is doing, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Sixty-four percent (64%) rate its performance as poor.
The House has several exclusive powers: the power to initiate revenue bills,[1] to impeach officials,[2] and to elect the U.S. President in case there is no majority in the Electoral College.[3]
The Constitution provides that the House may choose its own Speaker.[25] Although not explicitly required by the Constitution, every Speaker has been a member of the House.
The Constitution does not specify the duties and powers of the Speaker, which are instead regulated by the rules and customs of the House. Speakers have a role both as a leader of the House and the leader of their party (which need not be the majority party; theoretically, a member of the minority party could be elected as Speaker with the support of a fraction of members of the majority party).
Under the Presidential Succession Act (1947), the Speaker is second in the line of presidential succession behind the Vice President.
Each U.S. state is represented in the House in proportion to its population but is entitled to at least one representative. The most populous state, California, currently has 53 representatives. On the other end of the spectrum, there are seven states with only one representative.
The total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435.[4] Each representative serves for a two-year term. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who presides over the chamber, is elected by the members of the House, and is therefore traditionally the leader of the House Democratic Caucus or the House Republican Conference, whichever party has more voting members.
Originally posted by darkbake
reply to post by WhiteAlice
If the approval rating continues to drop below 10%, that seems pretty volatile.
Congress Approval Rating Sinks to New Historic Lows