All Gov – by Noel BrinkerhoffIt’s not easy being a member of Congress, what with all the suitcase packing they’ve been doing.
Lawmakers took five weeks off from Washington during their summer break. They came back this month to work…for eight days. Now, they’re jetting off again to their districts, or to the beach, where they’ll spend nearly the next eight weeks not doing any legislative work.
The House had been scheduled to be in session Friday, then four days in the week of September 29, but House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) announced Thursday that that would be the final work day until after the November 4 midterm election, according to The Hill. Senators also were quick to head out of town. Now members of both houses have plenty of time to campaign without any pesky work getting in the way.
Some House Democrats publicly scolded their Republican counterparts for adjourning the House session earlier than expected. “The American people have to ask: ‘What do you do for a living?’” Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) told The Hill.
During their brief stay in the nation’s capital, lawmakers managed to approve one key piece of legislation, which authorized the Obama administration to funnel weapons to Syrian rebels and approved short-term funding for government operations to avoid another shutdown.
Congress is scheduled to return on November 12. Its members will have just a few more lame-duck weeks to avoid setting a record for enacting the least number of laws of any Congress since such statistics began being kept in 1973. So far the current 113th Congress has enacted 163 laws, in comparison to the 284 passed by the 2011-2013 Congress. The 108th Congress, which operated in 2003-2004, enacted 504 laws. Since then, each Congress has passed fewer laws than the previous one.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
“The American people have to ask: ‘What do you do for a living?’” Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) told The Hill.”
BAHAHAHAAHAHA!!! ROLMFAO!!!!
As I said, she’s the only politician dumber and more retarded than Perry.
“During their brief stay in the nation’s capital, lawmakers managed to approve one key piece of legislation, which authorized the Obama administration to funnel weapons to Syrian rebels and approved short-term funding for government operations to avoid another shutdown.”
PHEW!!! After all, that’s the most important thing at this point for our country of Israel…er..I mean our country.
“Congress is scheduled to return on November 12. Its members will have just a few more lame-duck weeks to avoid setting a record for enacting the least number of laws of any Congress since such statistics began being kept in 1973.”
1. I have to say that Congress doesn’t have to pass laws in order to make them an effective Congress or to regulate our country.
2. What other laws can they pass to restrict and regulate our lives that they haven’t passed already?
We’re better off… with them off.
No new communist ‘bills’ for a while, at least
I don’t know about that. We still got an illegal Kenyan in the Oval Office with his pen and paper.
Gee, I wonder why they don’t want to be in DC?
Did they get a warning to leave town from the Israelis?
Pay attention people. They’re scattering…and that should worry us all.
I know this has been said many times before but NAFTA destroyed this country at least from a working man perspective. The politicians flood this country with illegals not giving a rats ass about what got our country going in the first place. Instead Obama takes vacations all the time. These clowns take vacations all the time. I mean it really has become a joke.