Jackie Calmes: 2023 was the year of the do-nothing House Republicans. In 2024, they'll do worse than nothing
It's a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end arguments and legislative gridlock.
And by now the reason they're mired in the mess is an old story: Repeatedly in 2023, we saw the dysfunction of the MAGA Republicans who narrowly took control of the House last January, making that chamber virtually ungovernable and yielding one of the least productive years in Congress' history. Just a couple dozen mostly minor bills became law, a fraction of the usual number.
The House. To borrow another lawmaker metaphor, they kicked the can down the road — cans, plural — into 2024.
