where does the time go?

Congress has a lot to do: Appropriations, Tax Reform, Health Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, Housing, Environmental Protection, Energy Sufficiency, Mass Transportation.

[From Sisyphus Shrugged – not nearly enough ]

The whole thing — Barbara Jordan’s statement on the impeachment process — is worth reading, but I was struck by that list of political concerns, that legislative agenda. That was on the table in 1974, and without exception, it could be on today’s agenda as well.

So what has gotten done in those 34 years?