Americans Give Congress Historic, Record Low Approval
by Peter Graham on Jun 19, 2014 | Views: 219 | Score: 4
| Institutions in which Americans put a "great deal" / "quite a lot" of confidence, by %... | |
| Congress | 7 |
| Television news | 18 |
| News on the internet | 19 |
| Big business | 21 |
| Organized labor | 22 |
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When Americans were presented a list of institutions and asked to respond with the level of confidence they placed in each of them, the legislative branch of our government fell dead last. Only 7% of Americans expressed some sort of approval for Congress.