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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
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)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?
gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)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.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)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.