About 14 percent say that Congress is doing a poor job. Citizens are now less favorable in their evaluation of Congress than they were in August, 1997. However, in 1996, only about 20 percent of the state's citizens said Congress was doing an excellent or good job. Congress is rated most favorably by black citizens and Republican party identifiers. Both Shelby and Sessions are rated more favorably by Republicans, higher income and white respondents.
Sessions is rated more favorably by males than females.
Both U.S. Senators from Alabama receive generally favorable job ratings from the state's citizens. About 52 percent say that Richard Shelby is doing an excellent or good job. About 46 percent rate Jeff Sessions as excellent or good. Shelby's job performance rating has remain relatively stable since 1991. Sessions is rated more favorably now than he was in August, 1997.