Only drunk dialers seriously think Congress has just one job

Published October 24, 2013 4:00am ET



Today, civics class, we’ll tackle the subject of exactly how many jobs it is that our Congress has.

The latest liberal rant is that Congress has “only one job” – to fund the federal government. Actually, the “key constitutional duty” of the Congress is to act as a check and balance on the executive and judicial branches of the federal government.

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