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George W. Bush registered a 90% job approval rating (the highest in Gallup's tracking) shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. [2] Harry S. Truman registered a 22% job approval rating (the lowest in Gallup's tracking) in a survey conducted February 9–14, 1952. [3]
[13] [33] Approval ratings in December 2007 were 25%, meaning only 1 out of 4 Americans approved of Congress. [34] Approval ratings from 1974 to 2009 have varied within a range from 20% to 50%, with variation, with a spike of over 84% in October 2001 after the 9/11 attacks. [33]
The approval ratings of Bush ranged from a record high to a record low. Bush began his presidency with ratings near 60%. [3] In the time of national crisis following the September 11 attacks, polls showed approval ratings greater than 85%, peaking in at 92%, [4] as well as a steady 80–90% approval for about four months after the attacks. [5]
Approval ratings for both U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress have reached their highest levels in more than a year this month, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Monday. Obama's ...
The 111th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011. It began during the last weeks of the George W. Bush administration , with the remainder spanning the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency .
Congressional approval ratings are measured monthly, and for the last quarter of 2023, have pretty much bottomed out. December polling, the most recent available, showed 85% of Americans ...
Congress’s approval rating has slipped to 13 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The approval rating, the lowest for Congress since 2017, comes in the wake of weeks of chaos in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Bicameral legislature of the United States For the current Congress, see 119th United States Congress. For the building, see United States Capitol. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject ...