Today marked the end of the worst 112th Congress in the history of the American democracy and the rocky Washington politics. Today also simultaneously marked the beginning of the 113th Congress that is the most racially diverse in composition and has the largest number of women in the history of the United States Congress. There are now 100 women in the 113th Congress out of 535 total number of Congress members. 20 women out of the 100 senators and 80 women out of the 435 House members respectively.
Americans will continue to remember for a long time the most dangerous political brinkmanship that was the order of the day in Washington for the entire life of this 112th Congress in power. The politics of compromise that allows the smooth governance in a multi-party politics and representative democracy became their worst political enemy in Washington with the Congress. This 112th Congress also received the worst public opinion polls of 11% which is still the worst rating of any Congress in the last 100 years of the American democracy. This 112th Congress divided further the major public opinions in America on all burning national issues. This Congress used their dirty Tea Party ideologies to make the American government to default for the first time on her foreign loan obligations and this led to the downgrading of the credit worthiness of the United States of America by the international credit rating agencies for the first time also in history. This 112th Congress also made American government to go over the fiscal cliff for the first time in the history of American government.
The new 113th Congress that was inaugurated today will face one of the biggest political challenges in America, such as the political battle to raise the debt ceiling that is coming up in the next few weeks, the divisive politics of how to reduce the America's ever rising deficits and huge foreign debt, the highly volatile politics of gun ownership and control that has already divided the national public opinions in America, the estimated 12-20 million undocumented illegal immigrants that are living under the shadow in American today and the America's porous and unfair tax codes that favor the richest Americans and the biggest corporations.
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