A Gallup survey taken this month finds that 10 percent of participants approve of the job Congress is doing — that’s down from 13 percent in January, and the previous record-low of 11 percent the month before (other polls have logged even lower approval ratings). 

The average congressional approval rating was 17 percent last year, according to Gallup. The high point came last May, when 24 percent of those polled said they approved of the job Congress was doing. 

Sen. Daniel Inouye has consistently enjoyed a much higher individual approval rating — 69 percent in March 2011 — than Congress’ collective rating. In an interview with the senator this week, DC808 reminded Inouye that one polling group found he was more popular than God.

“How many points?” Inouye quipped. “Depends on the God, too, you know. We’ve got all kinds of gods.”

The highest approval rating that Gallup ever recorded for Congress as a whole was 84 percent in October 2011, a month after the 9/11 attacks.