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The Democracy Scorecard
The 118th Congress can only be described as one of the most dysfunctional in American history. In January 2023, when leaders convened in Washington, the House of Representatives took four days and 15 votes to elect then-Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to be speaker, the longest speaker election since 1860. Then just nine months later, the House of Representatives voted to remove the Speaker through a “motion to vacate” process for the first time in history. For three weeks, the people’s house grinded to a halt until Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as its next speaker.
Soon after, the House expelled Rep. George Santos (R-NY), just the sixth time in our nearly 250-year history and only the 3rd time since the Civil War that a member of Congress was expelled. And in the summer of 2024, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) became the first sitting member of Congress to be charged with conspiracy by a public official to act as a foreign agent and soon after resigned.