Democratic-Led Congress Breaks Record For Highest Number Of Roll Call Votes In History

The facts about the Democrats' performance in Congress continue to disprove the endlessly-repeated memes about cowardice and complicity.

I look forward to a day where DUers show some pride:

"Conservatives have repeatedly criticized the Democratic-led Congress for not passing enough legislation. “I don’t think they’ve gotten anything done,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said in March. In July, he added that “Congressional Democrats” have “failed to deliver on any of their promises and have almost no accomplishments of which to speak.”

But a new Politico analysis finds that this 110th Congress has had more roll call votes this year than any other Congress in history, almost doubling the number under the previous Congress overseen by Boehner and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL)

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"Much of the lack of progress can be traced back to obstructionism by conservatives. Approximately “1 in 6 roll-call votes in the Senate this year have been cloture votes,” noted a July McClatchy report. “If this pace of blocking legislation continues, this 110th Congress will be on track to roughly triple the previous record number of cloture votes.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/roll-call-record/

and similar stuff about Reid. People here don't care about the realities of Congress these days.

to the American people when the media refuses to cover it properly?

I vote to make the Repugs actually veto the votes... Make them read the phone book overnight on CSpan while they sweat to keep some really popular legislation from getting to the floor. That would make the media:

1) COVER it because it would be unusual and funny looking
and
2) EXPLAIN it, because it would last long enough to make them "fill air time" with it.

Triple the number of Cloiture votes because they get blocked. How many are the exact same thing? Remove troops from Iraq, not sixty votes well then let's vote on removing troops from Iraq, not enough votes well then let's vote on removing troops from Iraq. Golly we have voted more times than the Congress before us so we are really cooking..How many votes on touch screen voting? How many votes on any global Warming issue? I know let's vote on removing troops from Iraq...

The block is the block.. It's always the same obstructionists..

The challenge is to expose them in the media. Most people don't have a clue what's going on down there..

Rethug hacks own MSM.