Just Kidding About Congresses Work Week..1 Day A Week As Usual…
Incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) backed off slightly from his promise to keep the House in session five days a week during a press conference yesterday with House leaders.
Hoyer explained that his previous comments about extending congressional working hours, which were made at a meeting with reporters earlier this week, were taken too literally.
“Everyone took that literally and presumed that when members aren’t here, they are on vacation,” Hoyer said, adding that when members return to their home districts, they continue to work hard talking to constituents.
He stressed that Congress would be working more in Washington in the new year, staying in town for full days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Under Republican leadership, lawmakers usually worked Tuesday evening until Thursday afternoon, a schedule Hoyer found unacceptable.
“We will work every Friday,” he said, adding that if legislative business is completed for the week, the day would be cut short.
“The American people expect us to work : they expect us to have oversight,” he said.
Hoyer today released his expanded legislative schedule, which features late-Monday votes and fewer recesses for the 110th Congress. As promised, it also requires members to be present for 6:30 votes Monday night and to stay through Friday.
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December 9, 2006 - 04:42 PM on December 9th, 2006
Most of the rats go back to what country they came from, meaning foreigners and aliens, meaning drug money runners, and the good old native with a head in his hands some are now in office that own it all to bin laden some own it all to mexico city and others love red china for the money, its all a joke and you will get the POINT! Someday.:roll:
December 9, 2006 - 06:20 PM on December 9th, 2006
Well Steny, another of Maryland’s embarassments. We shouldn’t be taking things too literally now can we?
December 11, 2006 - 03:53 PM on December 11th, 2006
[...] Of course he does, considering that his work week consists of an average of 1 day per week! Newsbusters has a good roundup of CNN’s American Morning from today: Alina Cho: “…For many Americans, taking a sick day is not a big deal. You take it for granted. But by most estimates, more than half of all Americans who work in the private sector do not get a single day of paid sick leave. Not a single day. Well, all of that could change now that the Democrats are about to take control of Congress. And for some families, it could make all the difference. Rachel Sobel, mother of two, quit her job last December when she was forced to make a choice: her job or her son. Leo had broken his arm and needed her care.” [...]
October 27, 2007 - 07:31 AM on October 27th, 2007
[...] when Hoyer promised to increase the work week in Washington? Well forget that: Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly declared that [...]