Roughly 100 days into the new Congress, the business of legislating is slowing to a crawl on Capitol Hill.

Of the 10 bills that have been signed into law so far this year only two were substantial enough to require roll call votes in the Senate. Both — a government funding deal and a lands package—were holdovers from last year.

Asked what big items were on the Senate GOP legislative agenda, Sen. John Cornyn John CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting Liberal super PAC launches ads targeting vulnerable GOP senators over SCOTUS fight Senate GOP faces pivotal moment on pick for Supreme Court MORE (R-Texas) acknowledged it wasn’t clear.

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“Now that we have divided Congress it really depends pretty much on Ms. Pelosi [and] what she’s willing to do. So far we don’t really know the answer to that,” said Cornyn, referring to Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare House lawmakers reach deal to avert shutdown Centrist Democrats 'strongly considering' discharge petition on GOP PPP bill MORE (D-Calif.).

The shift reflects a government divided between Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate and White House, and is a shift from the complete control the GOP enjoyed in the first two years of the Trump presidency.

By this point in 2017, Senate Republicans had held 111 roll call votes, compared to 64 when they left town Thursday. The GOP had also confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, rolled back several Obama-era regulations and taken a first step toward trying to repeal ObamaCare.

Given the unlikelihood of Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Senate GOP aims to confirm Trump court pick by Oct. 29: report Trump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes MORE (R-Ky.) and Trump teaming up on bipartisan legislation, lawmakers are likely to stick to smaller bills between now and the 2020 election.

Sen. John Thune John Randolph ThuneSenate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Romney backs pre-election Supreme Court vote, paving way for McConnell, Trump Senate GOP faces pivotal moment on pick for Supreme Court MORE (R-S.D.) said “things that are sort of incremental” are likely the “only things that are actually going to get done this year.”

“You have to realize that you’re going to be dealing with some political forces up here that are going to be pretty difficult over the course of the next ... two years,” he said.

Sen. Roy Blunt Roy Dean BluntSocial media platforms put muscle into National Voter Registration Day Senate GOP faces pivotal moment on pick for Supreme Court This week: Supreme Court fight over Ginsburg's seat upends Congress's agenda MORE (R-Mo.), another member of leadership, said lawmakers’ “lesson” from the previous Congress should be to fund the entire government by the end-of-September deadline.

“We need to now move forward just the fundamental things that need to be done to fund the government,” Blunt said. “If we did that, and two or three other things … that would be a really good legislative year.”

Congress has until Oct. 1 to pass 12 appropriations bills and avoid a second government shutdown this year. Lawmakers routinely miss the deadline and have to pass a continuing resolution (CR) and punt the funding fight.

In a sign of potential trouble to come, a disaster aid package, normally a bill that would get significant bipartisan support, has derailed in the Senate amid a fight between Democrats and Trump over additional assistance to Puerto Rico.

Sen. Richard Shelby Richard Craig ShelbySenate GOP eyes early exit Dems discussing government funding bill into February GOP short of votes on Trump's controversial Fed pick MORE (R-Ala.) described the state of play on the disaster aid bill as at an “impasse,” a “crawl,” a “standstill” and a “standoff.”

Asked how lawmakers would be able to get a larger deal on funding the government if they weren’t able to clinch smaller deals on disaster aid, Shelby added that he didn’t “think it bodes well.”

In addition to funding the government there is a laundry list of must pass bills on Congress’s plate: raising the debt ceiling, getting a deal on defense and non-defense budget caps to avoid sequestration and a massive defense policy bill.

There’s also a looming question about the chances for Trump’s new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, dubbed NAFTA 2.0, getting through Congress.

Sen. Chuck Grassley Charles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyCollins says she will vote 'no' on Supreme Court nominee before election The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Trump, GOP allies prepare for SCOTUS nomination this week Gardner signals support for taking up Supreme Court nominee this year MORE (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is urging Trump to drop the steel and aluminum tariffs against Canada and Mexico because it would “help clear the path” for his trade agreement to be ratified.

“This must be done in the next two months—I guess you’d say the next three months—if this is going to be done this year,” Grassley added.

Democrats have been able to use archaic legislative rules to bring up votes on two issues that were not supported by McConnell in the Senate and force Trump to use the first two vetoes of his administration: A resolution blocking his emergency declaration and a likely second veto on a resolution forcing him to nix U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.

House Democrats have also held a steady pace of high-profile votes, including on a wide-ranging ethics reform bill, a resolution calling on special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE’s Russia report to be released and a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, that are going nowhere in the Senate.

McConnell has dubbed the election reform bill the “Democratic Politician Protection Act,” Republicans have blocked the Mueller resolution five times and senators are crafting on their own VAWA bill.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Hakeem Sekou JeffriesDemocratic leaders: Supreme Court fight is about ObamaCare Pelosi: House will stay in session until agreement is reached on coronavirus relief Races heat up for House leadership posts MORE (D-N.Y.) argued that McConnell is “engaged in the permanent campaign.”

“We were sent to Congress, fundamentally to govern on behalf of the American people, which in a divided government context, requires us to work together to try to find common ground,” he said.

McConnell acknowledged during a recent press conference that with divided government the opportunities for bipartisan legislation are “more limited.”

“The House will be sending us a lot of bills that we are not likely to take up. We're probably going to be sending them a lot of bills that they're not going to take up,” he said.

McConnell hasn’t shied away from using the Senate floor to force Democrats to go on the record on divisive issues as he hunts for fodder ahead of the 2020 presidential election. He forced a vote last month on the Green New Deal, a progressive resolution that divides the Senate Democratic caucus.

Cornyn suggested that Republicans should force votes on issues being touted in the 2020 Democratic White House fight as a way to force senators, several of whom are running for president, to go on the record.

“I think that would be great,” Cornyn said. “We ought to break it up into small pieces and have them vote.”