Another season of American Idol. All of these represent things that are marginally more useful than the 112th United States Congress, which is on track to be the least productive congress in memory.

That Congress had many parallels with the 112th — it pitted a hostile, conservative Republican House against an activist, liberal president.

In case you haven't noticed yet, the 112th Congress of the United States is open for business. Just before this historic moment was gaveled into session, former ever-self-absorbed Speaker Nancy ...

Democratic Representative Frank Pallone talked about the opening of the 112th Congress, and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included the federal debt ceiling ...

Karen Finney and John Feehery talked about the 112th Congress, specifically how the Obama administration and a divided House and Senate, would work on legislative items in the upcoming year leading… ...

Why the 112th Congress Was The Worst, and the Next One Won’t Be Much Better Good Riddance! From failing to pass bills to the fiscal cliff fiasco, these folks stunk up the joint, says Howard Kurtz.

The 112th Congress was one for the record books.

The 112th Congress brings a lot of new numbers to Washington, including 94 freshman, of which 85 are Republicans and nine are Democrats. In total, 242 House members are Republicans while 193 are ...

The widely criticized 112th Congress is officially history. The members of the 113th Congress converged on Capitol Hill to take office on Thursday. They'll inherit looming fights over raising the ...

The new Congress should pay attention. After all, if renewed talk about completing the Doha Round in 2011 is to become action, so must antidumping reform.

Oh, the 112th Congress. It's a special kind of inept -- not so much lazy or unwilling, just torn. On the cusp of every important decision, its inner conflicts make it scream "No! We can't!" -- and ...

When we set out to write a book about the growing extremism in American politics about 18 months ago, we thought that the 112th Congress was the worst we had seen in our four decades in Washington ...