Oef. This must be horrible…
Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.
The horror.
Indeed. Terrible, terrible. And not just for politicians:
“I have bad news for you,” Hoyer told reporters. “Those trips you had planned in January, forget ’em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th.”
The reporters groaned. “I know, it’s awful, isn’t it?” Hoyer empathized.
Heh.
For lawmakers, it is awful, compared with what they have come to expect. For much of this election year, the legislative week started late Tuesday and ended by Thursday afternoon — and that was during the relatively few weeks the House wasn’t in recess.
Do they actually have to start working for a living? That is not why they ran for office! Politics is something like a retirement, without getting bored, right?
Members of the 109th Congress worked… 103 days, “that’s seven days fewer than the infamous “Do-Nothing Congress” of 1948.”
Hope they don’t get tired…
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