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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:24 PM Dec 2013

Least-Productive-Ever House Only Working Eight More Days This Year

House Only Working 8 More Days This Year
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/01/house-calendar-2013_n_4339276.html

Working during the holidays sucks. Luckily for members of the U.S. House of Representatives, they don't have that much of it before the new year begins.

The House is only scheduled to work eight days between now and January 7, when members return for the second session of the 113th Congress.

The House had 239 days off scheduled during 2013, and they have even more off days scheduled for next year.

The 2014 calendar for the House, released in October by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), shows members will only work only 113 days. That's down from 2013, when House lawmakers were scheduled to meet for 126 days. Only 107 days were scheduled in 2012.

As HuffPost reported in July, the 113th Congress is on pace to be the least productive in modern history. .............

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Least-Productive-Ever House Only Working Eight More Days This Year (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2013 OP

I thought the GOP hated deadbeats who were getting gov benefits without working? DJ13 Dec 2013 #1

I don't think it's the hours - it's what you do with them. el_bryanto Dec 2013 #2

True, so this is a symptom of the problem. The problem remains. Coyotl Dec 2013 #3

They accomplished what they thought they were to do: Ron Green Dec 2013 #4

DJ13

(23,671 posts)

1. I thought the GOP hated deadbeats who were getting gov benefits without working?

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 01:42 PM

Dec 2013

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

2. I don't think it's the hours - it's what you do with them.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 01:45 PM

Dec 2013

I honestly don't have a problem with this - because I don't expect that if they worked round the clock for the rest of the year there'd be much difference. Democrats have apparently compromised all they want to (and more than they should have so I'm glad they are stopping that at least temporarily) and Republicans won't compromise at all.

I have a problem with Republican obstructionism more than anything else. But if they can't fix that, well nothing is likely to work that well.

Bryant

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

3. True, so this is a symptom of the problem. The problem remains.

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:30 PM

Dec 2013

Ron Green

(9,822 posts)

4. They accomplished what they thought they were to do:

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:37 PM

Dec 2013

Keep the colored fellow from pushing his socialist agenda.

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