The Senate voted more in one week than it did in all of 2014

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Jon Stewart likes to compare Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to a turtle, but he's been anything but slow in getting lawmakers to vote this year. The GOP-controlled Senate cast 15 roll call votes on bill amendments in one week this month, which is more than the upper house cast in the entirety of 2014.

Former Democratic Majority Leader (and current Minority Leader) Harry Reid dismissed McConnell's celebration of this voting milestone, saying, "The success of a Congress is not determined on how many amendments people vote on. The success of this Congress will be determined on what happens to the middle class."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.