Eighty-four percent of Americans disapprove of Congress, the Gallup survey found. Poll: 13 percent approve of Congress

In a Gallup Poll of 1,008 adults, only 13 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, tied for the worst on record, according to the Gallup Organization. Eighty-four percent of Americans disapprove, the poll found. That figure is a record high.

The last time Congress had a 13 percent approval rating was in December 2010, during last year’s lame duck session.


The congressional job approval rating is slightly lower among independents at 9 percent, compared with 15 percent among Democrats and 17 percent among Republicans. The 9 percent approval rating for independents is the lowest since 1974 when Gallup began measuring congressional approval.

The poll results follows a record low approval rating for President Barack Obama, who scored a 39 percent approval rating in the pollster’s daily tracking numbers this week, the first time in his presidency that he received less than a 40 percent rating.

The most recent poll was taken Aug. 11-13 and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.