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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 10:18 PM Oct 2013

House Reduces Workdays On 2014 Calendar After Working So Hard In 2013

Who banks a $174,000 annual salary and works less than a third of the year?

Members of the House of Representatives, apparently.

The 2014 calendar for the House was released Thursday by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), and 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.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called attention to the House's sparsely populated 2013 schedule in July 2013, highlighting the fact that the House had only nine workdays scheduled for September.

HuffPost reported in July that the 113th Congress was on pace to be the least productive in history. Many House members are running for reelection in the 2014 midterm elections and will spend part of their time campaigning.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/house-calendar-2014_n_4181969.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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House Reduces Workdays On 2014 Calendar After Working So Hard In 2013 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP
If they work any less they might as well stay the hell home. Historic NY Oct 2013 #1
Over-paid slackers. nt City Lights Oct 2013 #2
Campaigning and making money are more important to them than doing their jobs. AndyA Oct 2013 #3
OMG fucking repuke assclowns, do your fucking job! gopiscrap Nov 2013 #4
Don't they have to work a minimum amount to get their welfare? Buns_of_Fire Nov 2013 #5
They could vote from their homes /nt jakeXT Nov 2013 #6
K&R n/t krispos42 Nov 2013 #7
113 days is still too large to fit in a bath-tub HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #8

AndyA

(16,993 posts)
3. Campaigning and making money are more important to them than doing their jobs.
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 10:40 PM
Oct 2013

I hope everyone remembers this do nothing (except vote repeatedly to repeal Obamacare) House and sends these GOP and Tea Bagger jokers packing if they're running in 2014. A clean sweep to remove them would send a strong message to the rest that their employers are not amused.

NO ONE else would keep their job, why should these idiots?

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
5. Don't they have to work a minimum amount to get their welfare?
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 01:31 AM
Nov 2013

This COULD be taken as a good sign -- it shows that they know they're in trouble (with 63% of people saying they'd even vote to throw out their OWN congresscritter), so they're setting aside lots of time for kissing teabagger ass.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
8. 113 days is still too large to fit in a bath-tub
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 07:29 AM
Nov 2013

They really only need be in session 1 day a month to rubberstamp the ALEC boiler plate.

But politicians still believe they need the real capital backdrop for effective photo-ops.

If we could just get their egos out of the way, we could get to something more efficient...say 10 days/year

There is a thing that could be drowned in a bath-tub.


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