Three weeks after the 113th Congress began, 82 percent of Americans disapproved of it, the highest disapproval rating for a new Congress since The New York Times and CBS News began asking the question two decades earlier.
Sources
- The Best Reporting on What’s Wrong with Congress (propublica.org)
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-americans-want-compromise-over-debt-ceiling/ (cbsnews.com)
- https://news.gallup.com/poll/159812/congress-begins-2013-approval.aspx (news.gallup.com)
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