Congressional Ratings: 11% Rate Congress Good or Excellent
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Rasmussen Reports - Just 11% of American voters give the outgoing Congress good or excellent marks. That&#39;s down from 13% two weeks ago and 15% on Election Day.
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Highlights of what Congress has done &#151; and has not done &#151; this year.
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The Apple iPhone has enjoyed favorable reviews since its recent debut, but it came in for some rare criticism on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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Fortunately for members of Congress, their pay isn't tied to their approval ratings.
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Public opinion surveys make it abundantly clear that this election year is not the time for Republicans Ã¢ÂÂ at least those facing tough challenges in battleground House districts Ã¢ÂÂ to run as best buddies of President Bush or the Republican leadership in Congress.
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By The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 8--REPORT cards have become a fave way for advocacy groups to compare states or grade lawmakers on various issues. The idea is to put things in a format everyone can understand. Rather than a numerical ranking, a letter grade is given.
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What's good for the search giant is good for America. Sort of.
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It's almost as if people can barely stand the thought of President Bush and Congress anymore. Bush reached his lowest approval rating in The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on Friday as only 30 percent said they like the job he is doing, including an all-time low in his support by Republicans. Congress' approval fell to just 22 percent, equaling its poorest grade in the survey. Both marks dropped by 4 percentage points since early January.
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Today's Rude Opinion Poll: Which description best characterizes our elected representatives in Washington, regardless of party affiliation?
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This week, every member of Congress will receive a copy of a 450-page report prepared by the Acquisition Advisory Panel. The 13-member panel, established by Congress, came up with 100 findings and 80 recommendations on how to improve the federal procurement system after hearing from 108 witnesses.
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Members of Congress yesterday questioned the practicability of recommendations from the Iraq Study Group about how to reverse the chaos in Iraq, but they praised the panel's stark assessment of conditions there.
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Congress can move with amazing speed when it wants to. Trouble is, Congress doesn&#39;t always want to -- as with the highway bill that&#39;s been delayed for two years and the 12 spending bills it is supposed to pass by Oct. 1, but won&#39;t.
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Although the election is not until  November, President Bush and his Republican party have bested  John Kerry and the Democrats as far as U.S. television ratings  are concerned, research showed on Friday
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Congress returned this week to a lengthy list of unfinished business and a late election-season opportunity to build on its meager record.
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Congress is offering a raise to Medicare doctors who report how often they provide quality care, as defined by the government.
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But it still helps for presidential candidates to be likable. Forty percent found Hillary Rodham Clinton likable, compared with 54 percent for Barack Obama, 45 percent for John McCain and 31 percent for Mitt Romney. Clinton's rating has not changed since the first AP-Yahoo News poll in November, while the others' have improved slightly.
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(InfoWorld) - Many of the Web sites for members of the U.S. Congress lack basic information such as information on office hours or where to go if the reader has problems with a federal agency, according to a report released Monday. The overall state of congressional Web sites is "disappointing," said the Congressional Management Foundation, a nonprofit group advocating for a more effective Congress. The group gave only about 14 percent of the 615 lawmaker and congressional leadership Web sites it surveyed A grades for user friendliness. The top group of A-graded sites earn CMF's Gold Mouse award. Thirteen percent of the congressional sites received F grades, and another 25 percent received D's. "It's things that are missing, things that aren't updated," said Beverly Bell, CMF's executive director. In many cases, congressional offices seem to see Web sites as one-way communication mediums, she said. About 49 percent of the sites did not include sufficient information on how to contact the office about a problem with a federal agency, CMF said in its report. Just over 26 percent told visitors the best way to communicate with their offices, and 32 percent did not include links to sponsored or cosponsored legislation. Just 11 percent of House Web sites and 5 percent of Senate Web sites posted their office hours. "It's how you view your Web site," Bell added. "Are you seeing your Web site as a service center for constituents? There's not as much of that as we'd like to see. Or, are you seeing it as one big press release for yourself?" CMF produced two previous reports, in 2002 and 2003. Only three lawmakers have received awards in each of the Gold Mouse Reports: Representative Mike Honda, a Democrat representing part of Silicon Valley in California, Senator Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, and Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat known for his interest in tech issues. But overall, Republican sites scored higher than Democratic sites, with 66 percent of Republican sites scoring at least a C compared to 56 percent of Democratic sites. In some cases, lawmakers seem to believe that Web sites create more work for their staffs, and congressional staffs haven't substantially increased in size since the 1970s, Bell said. But a well-designed Web site can reduce workload by cutting telephone calls from constitutions about information such as sponsored legislation or visitor tours, she said. The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the University of California-Riverside, and Ohio State University assisted CMF with the report.