cc: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio RT @johngramlich: !!! Senate To Work on Fridays - http://t.co/uOVW4qnVxe
— Faiz (@fshakir) November 20, 2014
Roll Call notices:
As expected, the Senate will kick off work in the 114th Congress on Jan. 6, and the chamber isn’t expected to take a full week break until Presidents Day. That’s according to a draft calendar obtained by CQ Roll Call that shows the Senate in recess the third week in February, for the two weeks around Easter Sunday (which falls on April 5), and the weeks of Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.
The aggressive schedule would be a change from recent years that have featured more frequent recess weeks, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the majority leader next year, has pledged to have senators in town and voting on Fridays.
Some of the increase in workweeks is to be expected, because 2015 is an odd year and thus no senators have elections looming in the fall. It could nonetheless prove challenging for the number of Senate Republicans who are mulling bids for the presidency.
(ht Felix Bronstein)
Senators don't work. Most of them have never worked a day in their lives. Politicians love to claim that they are "working hard for you" or "fighting for " this or that. I think we'd all benefit by simply paying our current politicians their current salaries only if they agreed to stay home and never come to "work".
ReplyDeleteOf course, none of them would agree to that arrangement, because their salaries are only a drop in the bucket compared to what they gain by peddling their influence. Staying home would also deprive them of what they really love: power over other people.