It's not often I agree with John Boehner, but when he said, "We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal", I was in complete accord.
There are thousands of laws in existence, and I've often wondered how many of those laws are still useful. I would think one function of Congress would be to examine past laws, and repeal or amend those that have become outdated, and certainly to repeal those laws that do actual harm.
As candidates for repeal, I would first nominate the stupid, painful and damaging sequester, and second the federal drug laws that criminalize private recreational behavior, are the drivers of much of the nation's criminal activity, and have resulted in the US having the world's highest proportion of its citizens imprisoned.
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