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They also leave with the lowest approval rating ever recorded---13%.

Pelosi/Reid is leaving quite a legacy. They must be incredibly proud.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/111t...debt-first-100

111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429 Per Person in U.S.

Monday, December 27, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) - The federal government has accumulated more new debt--$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury.

That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census.

The total national debt of $13,858,529,371,601.09 (or $13.859 trillion), as recorded by the U.S. Treasury at the close of business on Dec. 22, now equals $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has out-stripped its nearest competitor, the 110th, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in new debt.

During the 110th Congress—which, according to the Clerk of the House, officially convened on Jan. 4, 2007 and adjourned on Jan. 4, 2009--the national debt increased $1.957 trillion. When that Congress adjourned less than two years ago, it claimed the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history. As it turned out, however, its record did not last long.

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Bloomberg: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ongress23.html

However history judges the 535 men and women in the House and Senate the past two years, one thing is certain: The 111th Congress made more laws affecting more Americans than any other since the "Great Society" legislation of the 1960s.

For the first time since President Theodore Roosevelt began the quest for a national health-care system more than 100 years ago, the Democratic-led Congress took the biggest step toward achieving that goal by giving 32 million Americans access to insurance. Wall Street rules were rewritten in the most comprehensive way since the Great Depression. Consumers were given protections against the credit-card industry. Lawmakers spent more than $1.67 trillion to revive an economy on the verge of a depression, including tax cuts for most Americans, jobs for more than 3 million, construction of roads and bridges and investment in alternative energy; ended an almost two-decade ban against openly gay men and women serving in the military, and on Wednesday ratified a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia.
Before adjournment, a bill was passed to help rescuers and cleanup crews suffering from illnesses linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, wreckage in New York.