For Obama, fewer bill-signing ceremonies reflect years of gridlock

Noted: “I think the legacy is in trouble,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the life and death of government programs. The coalition that passed those — especially the Affordable Care Act and and the Dodd-Frank financial regulations — was a combination of President Obama and a Democratic Congress. And even then it was difficult. That puts those two items from the first two years on the chopping block.”