[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18642-18643]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WORK OF THE CONGRESS

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I appreciate the Republican leader 
cheering for all of the great things that have happened here in the 
Senate, but the facts are that--look at any political scientist, anyone 
who watches what goes on here in Washington and add up the number of 
bills passed and the nominations confirmed in this Congress--this 
Congress is well, well beyond anything in recent history.
  In addition to that, we have had more revotes--that is, voting on the 
same thing over and over with the same result--in the history of 
Congress ever. So I appreciate his trying to make things look good. I 
hope it gets better in the next couple of weeks because we have a lot 
to do. We have a lot to do. I will talk about that in a minute. We have 
so much to do. We can accomplish a great deal if we finish the

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highway bill and elementary and secondary education, if we do the tax 
extenders, and if we do the omnibus spending bill. That would be 
terrific if we could get those done, but we only have a few days to get 
them done.

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