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Our government, well, sucks big time. Congress plays hooky ALL THE TIME!


Posted: Oct 16, 2009

I work my butt off for practically pennies and our congress plays hooky? Basically they work 2-1/2 days a week?  FIRE THEM ALL, DANG IT!!!!!  THEY SUCK AT THEIR JOBS!!!! If you call it a job.  Shows a picture of inside congress and guess what?  NOT ONE PERSON AT WORK!  Congress building empty and usually on Thursdays too.  How much do they get paid to work 2-1/2 days a week.  They do not even listen to the PEOPLE.  

Congress Plays Hooky on Fridays Despite Pledge by Democrats to Work All Week

Democratic leaders promised when their party regained control of the House three years ago that lawmakers would work five-day weeks, but that plan apparently didn't work.

FOXNews.com

Friday, October 16, 2009

 

If you want to talk to members of Congress on a Thursday or Friday, don't bother going to Capitol Hill.

Try Reagan National Airport, where they've probably already picked up a snack near the boarding gate for their flight back to their home districts.

Democratic leaders promised when their party regained control of the House three years ago that lawmakers would work five-day weeks.

But that plan apparently didn't work.

"We will, then, not plan to be here on Friday. I know that disappoints all of you," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said to applause and groans on Thursday.

But a recent analysis found that after a fairly energetic first half of this year, the House has settled into what Politico calls a "rather leisurely routine" of two-and-a-half day workweeks.

For example, only one vote has been held on a Friday since the House returned for its fall session Sept. 8.

"What we ought to be doing five days a week, six days a week, is bring these health care reform bills to the floor of the House and the Senate," Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., said.

The slower pace comes as a new Fox News poll shows that 66 percent of Americans disapproved of the job that Congress is doing.

Asked why the House isn't in session Friday, Hoyer blamed the Senate, where key spending bills have been held up.

"I'm not going to hold people here to twiddle our thumbs," he said.

The issue even made a rare appearance on the House floor this week.

"We don't have some other bills, because, frankly, we can't get 60 votes to consider them on the floor of the United States Senate," he said. "I think that's lamentable."

"You have the power to schedule the floor and move forward," Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., shot back.

Aides to the Democratic leadership contended that, for lawmakers, time spent off the House or Senate floor, or back in home districts, hardly amounts to a holiday.

And they said that under GOP leadership, the House work ethic was even worse.

With members breezing in on Tuesday afternoons, working hard on Wednesdays an jetting out of the Capitol by Thursday afternoon.

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You are correct, and (sm) - petit.moi

[ In Reply To ..]
...This is exactly what has been allowed by the Americans who pay these fools' salaries (I know of only one who does not come under the category of "fool.")

I am by no means condoning this thievery; what I am pointing out that for decades, Americans have put the concept of "public servant" out of their heads.

Not only that, most of them get their information by the state-run media,and most Americans think there are only two parties.

They don not vote platform--they vote party ("I've always voted Democrat/
Republican.")

No more do Republicans (some, anyway) uphold the concept of "Republic," which this country is.

Any Democrat I know of is a hardcore Socialist, etc.

As long as voters get whatever "gimme" they got what they want (fill in here), what does it matter? America has brought this upon itself.

If you speak up, you're labeled "mean," or "hateful," or (lately) "racist."

There are Communists/Marxists/
Socialists as "czars" to this President.

I do my own research--even if I hear on radio (as infrequently as I listen) or read this sort of thing on the 'web, I check it out for myself.

We have been on this slippery slope since the 1930s. The chickens are happily on the roost.

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