Time to ground Congress

[applegrove]

Time to ground Congress

By Dana Milbank at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/time-to-ground-congress/2015/11/13/33e0fc84-8a08-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

"SNIP..............


House Republican leaders last week did something that should outrage Americans of all parties and creeds: They declared that the people’s representatives will be working only two days a week next year.

The House will be in session just 111 days in 2016. This means the chamber will be closed more weekdays (150) than open, and many of the 111 are partial days. That’s upward of 30 weeks of paid vacation for all 435 members of the House. Is it any wonder the House is not doing what the people want?

Worse, American taxpayers are subsidizing members of Congress so that they can take more time off. Lawmakers have awarded themselves essentially unlimited travel budgets so they can spend more time at home.

It began with good intentions years ago: Members of Congress, out of a desire to be in touch with their constituents, made sure they could travel home to their districts as often as they wished. But this has contributed to a culture in which lawmakers fly to Washington Tuesday morning and fly out Thursday evening when in session (and perhaps make a quick trip home Wednesday nights for the odd Rotary speech).



...............SNIP"

[randys1]

1. TeaBAGGERS hate the AMerican government. They want to destroy it, this is part of that