85% of Americans Unhappy With Congress

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The overwhelming majority of US nationals, irrespective of party allegiance, holds a dismal opinion of Congress, a fresh poll showed.

The poll found that 89 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans disapprove of the legislature's work.

Published by the Associated Press-NORC Center on Monday, the latest survey revealed that a total of 85 percent of Americans believe the Congress's job is below par.

The attitude to the Republican-controlled legislature does not change much across party lines. The number of Democrats that held an unfavorable view of Congress, 89 percent, is only seven percentage points higher than that of Republicans, at 82 percent.

While the figures are a bit more reassuring when it comes to the members of Congress, the immediate representatives of those surveyed, they are still hardly anything to brag about.

Only 44 percent of Americans approve of the work their own Congressman or Congresswoman is doing on Capitol Hill, 41 percent of Democrats and half of Republicans.

Even if some may think that the Congress's workload is enough, it does not mean they are passing all good laws.

Fewer than 20 percent of Americans believe there is merit to the lawmakers' legislative work, while over a third of all respondents think it is mostly bad. The remainder don't assess it as either positive or negative.

The NORC poll was conducted very recently between 15 and 19 February.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team