Today in Congress: you people are gonna want your money back

[MindMover]

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Source: Congress Matters

Less and less is happening on the floor every day. They're still going through the motions in the committees, with the appropriators and budget folks busily churning through their piles of paper in preparation for their busy season. But in the House yesterday, the only action was the party-line passage of the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act (plus the party-line rejection of every single amendment to it), and then the passage on voice vote of one suspension bill

Read more: http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2012/3/1/8301/45986

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What do we pay these guys and gals $170,000 a yr to do????

[unblock]

1. only job in the world where you get paid to ensure that nothing useful happens.

what a gig these republicans have.

[babylonsister]

2. Yea, it's not healthy for whatever we're calling our gov't nowadays. Don't forget who is running

the 'house'. They are determined not to get anything done. Too bad most Americans are unaware of that.

[xchrom]

3. We pay them so that they can have increased access

To corporations they might want to lobby for later.

[HopeHoops]

4. Not LBN - Analysis more suited for GR. Locking.