Congress' Approval at 17%

The Hill reports:

Congress's approval rating stands at just 17 percent and is hovering near its all-time low, according to new Gallup numbers released Thursday.

The rating is largely unchanged from last month, when Gallup measured 18 percent approval for the current Congress, but it marks a drop of six points from the high-water mark for 2011 — 23 percent approval back in February.

The 17 percent approval rating is the lowest Gallup has measured in the month of April for a new Congress since it began tracking the trend monthly after the 1994 midterm elections. The rating is also just 4 percentage points above Congress's all-time low of 13 percent, measured in December of 2010.