McConnell's 2016 Senate On Track To Be Least Active In 60 Years

When Mitch McConnell became majority leader in 2014 he made a promise: He'd get the Senate working harder again.

But in a presidential election year with party conventions hitting in July and the battle to preserve the fragile Republican majority on in the Senate, lawmakers will spend more time away from Washington this year than any other time since 1956, according to a report in Politico. The news outlet reports that right now the Senate is on track to work just 124 days this year....
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