The 115th Congress is one of the most productive in three decades, according to the Pew Research Center.
But the bulk of the Republican-controlled legislature’s work has been undoing the Obama administration’s regulatory legacy, the think tank reports.
Congress has passed 46 substantive measures — which Pew defines as bills that do not rename buildings, award medals, commemorate historic events or take “other purely ceremonial actions” — that have been signed into law by President Trump in 2017 before Labor Day.
This achievement ranks the 115th Congress alongside the 110th Congress for the fifth-highest count of laws compared to the past 16 sessions of Congress.
Fourteen of those 46 measures had the “sole purpose” of overturning Obama-era regulations under the 1996 Congressional Review Act, Pew added.
Congress has been knocked by critics for failing to notch any key legislative accomplishments, including repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
