[ditty_news_ticker id=”25027″]WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 115th U.S. Congress begins its term with a 19% job approval rating, similar to the level measured for the institution in recent years and in line with the 18% to 20% ratings it received in the final months of 2016.
The latest rating, based on a Jan. 4-8 Gallup poll, comes as the new Congress was sworn in on Jan. 3 and congressional Republicans attempted to make a rule change that would have weakened the watchdog Office of Congressional Ethics. They later scrapped the plan, and the incident did not affect Americans’ views of Congress. – READ MORE
