When President Harry Truman ran for re-election in 1948, he railed against a “do-nothing” 80th Congress that passed 906 separate bills into law over a two-year period, including the landmark Taft-Hartley union regulation law and the 1947 National Security Act that created the modern U.S. military establishment.
More than 75 years later, Truman would have a much easier time making the same argument against the 119th Congress.
