Congress will leave for summer recess with little accomplished

[Geee]

Washington Times:

Congress is slinking toward an August exit from Washington with little to show for the past few weeks, and House Republicans suffered a major setback Wednesday when they had to pull their first domestic spending bill of the year from the floor, realizing they didn’t have the votes to pass it.

 

Far from the late-summer deadline fights of 2011, when the government flirted with a debt default, or 2009, when Congress gave a last-minute injection to shore up the “cash for clunkers” program, no last-minute deals are brewing, and there is little urgency to get much accomplished before five weeks of vacation.

 

Indeed, this year’s Congress is on pace for one of the lowest productivity records in history, and both sides are pointing fingers at each other.