Congress is off for the campaign season , as lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times try to persuade voters to keep them on the job.
The House Republicans led the tumult - painstakingly electing their speaker in a bitter public feud then swiftly booting him from office , something never before seen. But the deeply divided Senate was not immune from the inaction, lumbering through a modest agenda .
Taken together, the lack of big-ticket accomplishments is underscoring a volatile November election season with control of Congress a toss-up.
"The good thing is Congress didn't allow much to go through law," said Rep. Ryan Zinke, a former Trump administration Cabinet secretary who is now running for re-election to his House seat in Montana. "But what it didn't do, either, is it didn't reach its potential."
House Republicans blocked not only the Biden-Harris priorities of the Democrats, he said, but "in many ways, we blocked our own agenda."
