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title: "Congress’ productivity improves somewhat in 2015"
description: "Congress passed 113 laws, 87 of them substantive, in 2015, making it the most productive first session since 2009"
date: "2015-12-29"
authors:
  - name: "Michael Piccorossi"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2015/12/29/congress-productivity-improves-somewhat-in-2015/"
---

# Congress’ productivity improves somewhat in 2015