How the 113th Congress Dodged the Top “Do-Nothing” Label

Congress has stumbled through several years of highly partisan, truncated government, with the Democrats in control of the White House and Senate and the Republicans in charge of the House – with little in the way of truly important legislation to show for their efforts. Now we are entering a new era of divided government, with a Democratic president and Republican Congress, and the question becomes can this system be any more productive?