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Posted on 05/15/2018 5:49:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
Follows recent tweet by President Trump urging Senate to stay in session through the summer
The clamor for Congress to scrap its summer vacation is growing louder, with more than a dozen Senate Republicans officially petitioning Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday to keep the chamber in session on nights, weekends and even through their normal August break to make headway on President Trump’s agenda.
Partly born of frustration with Democrats and partly worried that voters will see a lack of progress from an all-Republican Washington, the senators said voters preparing for the November elections deserve to know that the Republican Party is making maximum effort on its priorities.
Sen. David Perdue, the Georgia Republican spearheading the push, said Mr. Trump appears to be on board with the call to cancel recess and that Mr. McConnell is also receptive.
“All things are on the table,” Mr. Perdue said. “Just like the president tweeted over the weekend, if we don’t fund the government by Aug. 1, then we should not go home.”
Summer vacations have been shortened, including last year, when Mr. McConnell kept senators beyond their planned adjournment in order to work on an Obamacare repeal and to confirm more nominations.
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Stock up on judges before the midterm elections.
Stay in session and get things done. Work for a living....y’know, like the rest of us.
They didn’t get their work done so they have to stay after school to finish it.
Interesting. Doing it for the team.
Wow, almost like we are coming up on an election or something.
What makes them think he’ll listen to them about this, any more than he listens to them about anything else?
Yep...Love to see it happen just to hear Chuckie bawl and squall on the Senate floor and to the enemedia.
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Amen...
McConnell is being a real jerk considering the quality of judges DJT is nominating.
Mitch is on the Mueller’s train....
You got that right, Gene.
The RATS are stroking him and he’s going along with it.
How about starting with a five day workweek?
After 3 days, guests start to stink.
Mitch is a rotting corpse.
They have to go to Summer School because they failed!
Aint gonna happen. McConnell has China obligations in August!
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