reporter: congress may be getting dumber. at least that s the way it sounds. a new study finds that congress has gone from speaking collectively at an 11th grade level to now only a 10th grade level. and for some in congress, it gets even uglier. a mathematical formula calculated final grades for all members based on sentence structure and word choice. here are the worst offenders. from the house, south carolina representative mick mulvaney who only speaks at a seventh grade level and kentucky senator rand paul, he speaks at an eighth grade level. but among the best congressional speakers at what amounts to a 16th grade level, representative dan lungren from california and from the senate, hawaii s daniel akaka, speaking at a 14th grade level. the difference isn t hard to hear. in committee funding will require committees to allocate their resources more judiciously. do you really ever intend to pay it back? if the answer is yes, my question would be, well when?
and found the grade level of the speeches declined from an 11th grade level to a 10th grade level. constitut the study found the republican congressman became the most advanced speeches. simplest speeches were given by the republican congressman rob woodall. those your headlines. how do they know that? how do they know that? not in congress anymore. from florida, the one term congressman. die quickly. let s talk about president obama yesterday, sitting there with his world in his audience and he took some questions from the press. the local press. at which time, one of the questions was about bain capital and about private equity and about cory booker coming forward as mayor of newark, new jersey and saying he has a real problem with indicting, i paraphrase here, indicting private equity firms as a problem in this country. he says it s nauseating to him. he walked that back a little bit