A Congress Worse Than Ours

I'd say the title applies to Brazil.  Here are some examples:

• Almost 200 legislators, or a third of Brazil’s Congress, are facing charges in trials overseen by the Supreme Federal Tribunal.  A couple of these charges: employing slave labor on a cattle estate or ordering the kidnapping of three Roman Catholic priests as part of a land dispute in the Amazon.
• Congressmen can only be tried in the Supreme Federal Tribunal.  That's an improvement as in the 20th century they could not even be tried without the authorization of Congress
• In 1963, a senator shot dead a fellow legislator on the Senate floor, only to escape imprisonment, since the killing was considered an accident because he was aiming at another senator.  

But the current protests seem to have had some effect. Congress has approved a bill to use oil royalties for education and health care. The Senate, the upper house of Congress, gave its nod to stiffer penalties for corruption, and the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, shot down an attempt to rein in corruption investigators.