Although three-quarters of Americans are unhappy with the way their government was run in 2015, Congress enjoyed a more productive year than it has since 2009.

Lawmakers passed 113 laws in 2015, the Pew Research Center found. Some of them attempted to make egregious government behavior illegal for the first time.

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