This really pisses me off.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200910 ... tico/28015
Like most Americans, members of the House are expected to report promptly — no excuses — when summoned by their bosses for the start of another workweek. One difference: For lawmakers, starting time doesn’t come until about 6:30 Tuesday evening.
After taking control of the House in 2006 — and again when President Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 — Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) boasted that lawmakers would work four or five days a week to bring change to America.
But midway through Obama’s first year in office, Hoyer’s House has settled into a more leisurely routine. Members usually arrive for the first vote of the week as the sun sets on Tuesdays, and they’re usually headed back home before it goes down again on Thursdays.
Since the House returned for its fall session on Sept. 8, it has stuck around to vote on a Friday just once: to approve a 5.8 percent increase in Congress’s own budget.
This is not aimed just at the Democrats. I think it reflects our elected officals attitudes towards the job at hand on both sides.
See the link for the full story.
Working hard or hardly working?
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Re: Working hard or hardly working?
LMAO!!!
better to be pissed off than pissed on.
better to be pissed off than pissed on.
"You'll never stop at one. I'll take you all on!"
Re: Working hard or hardly working?
me too Siddy!
better to be pissed on, if your into that sort of thing -------> golden showers ftw!
better to be pissed on, if your into that sort of thing -------> golden showers ftw!
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Prozac wrote:Blah-buhdee-Blah-buhdee-Blah-Blah-Blah!
Prozac standard response when dealing with something that is actually serious .
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands
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around reloading".--Thomas Jefferson
Re: Working hard or hardly working?
Porkinator wrote:Prozac wrote:Blah-buhdee-Blah-buhdee-Blah-Blah-Blah!
Prozac standard response when dealing with something that is actually serious .
What he said.
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