Posted on 11/24/2010 7:53:03 AM PST by re_tail20
While Republican leaders spent the last three weeks preparing an agenda for their Jan. 5 takeover of the House, a separate group of about two dozen GOP lawmakers have been scrutinizing the day-to-day operation of the House and are planning potentially significant changes aimed at cutting costs and improving efficiency, including a longer work week.
The House Republican transition team, headed by Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., held a conference call Tuesday to discuss the potential changes and review responses to a survey, sent to all members earlier this month, that asked lawmakers and staff to rate their satisfaction with everything from the House information technology office to whether the House "modular furniture program has been a success."
The transition team also held two days of listening sessions with current and incoming members and on Tuesday discussed "suggestions that particularly resonated," according to a GOP aide.
Walden signaled that the GOP is considering reducing the size and jurisdiction of the 23 House permanent and select committees and examining whether it makes more sense for lawmakers to have a longer work week in Washington, instead of spending fewer than three days at the Capitol each week as they do now. Walden's team will also examine whether the House spends too much time debating seemingly superfluous measures like those renaming post offices and congratulating sports teams.
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“Walden told reporters he is looking for ways to cut the House’s operating costs, which could place programs created under current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the chopping block, including her four-year-long effort to make the Capitol more environmentally friendly.”
I will love seeing this done away with.
End Baseline Budgeting.
http://membership.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=policy_Baseline_Budgeting
How about a SHORTER work week?
(they can do less damage if they only meet once a week - or month)
Seriously- what do they have to be there to do all day every day with a staff of people? all they do is endless churn out more and more legislation spending more and more on crap we don’t need.
Go home.. talk to the people....
Get together ONLY for serious business
I am looking forward to our new Congress reversing the damage done by that bitch Pelosi and her friends.
i bet they could save a lot of money if they were forced to work from their districts...closer to their bosses...more easily reamed out when they waste their time and money...also required to answer random constituent phone calls themselves instead of having flunkies taking the heat for their actions...
all these would significantly cut costs...and temptation to increase costs
I wonder how much more foolishness we are paying for.
Here’s a suggestion-make congressmen be required to actually read the legislation they want to enact on the rest of us, or would that be too much like doing what they get paid to do? And not only read it, but be requires to be answerable for anything in it, no matter how “small”. If it’s too much to grasp, let alone read, they have no business trying to pass it. I’m sick to death of some of these so-called “representatives” actually getting indignant at the idea they are required to be responsive to the very people they begged for money and votes to put them there.
A longer work week?
No thanks.
I’ve always said:
Cut off the air-conditioning during the summer.
Cut off the heat during the winter.
Please see my post #9.
I think you will agree.
Thank you.
Wow. The Congress may lengthen its 3 day or less work week. Or maybe not.
Certainly even CONSIDERING such revolutionary measures will satisfy the millions of Americans who took to the streets demanding their country back!
/heavy sarcasm
bring back dueling....
How bout a 20% pay decrease as well as a 20% staff reduction to let us know you really hear us.
Pray for America
How about a pay INCREASE for every billion they cut out of the budget?
Hey, we know they can be bribed.
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