Posted on 10/05/2015 2:42:55 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) wants the House schedule to more closely resemble a typical American workweek.
Jolly, who is running for Senate, has introduced a resolution to change House rules so that the chamber must be in session for at least 40 hours a week while lawmakers are in Washington.
“This 'try-nothing' Congress needs a reality check. A work week in Washington should be no different than a work week in every other town across the nation,” Jolly said in a statement.
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If this guy thinks that Congressfolks are only “working” when Congress is actually in session, then I would suggest he is not working hard enough for his constituents.
No. They should only meet for 40 hours a year.
We’d be better off if they only worked an hour or two a week, then leave before they accomplish anything.
More time in the office doesn’t mean they’ll read the bills they never read, but it may mean they pass more of them.
They can do less harm that way...
Where do we find these morons? He next brilliant idea will be an union for Members of Congress.
GOP-e has not done 40 hours since the 2014 election.
Gets in the way of the K Street partners.
This is the last thing that I want congress to do. They already think their job is continuously pass a mountain of new laws and let another mountain of new regulations take effect each day.
The rules should be changed as follows:
1. no agency can make any guideline, rule, regulation, etc effective with it being read in full in front of at least 90% of the congress, then amended, and then voted on.
2. no law can be passed without it being read in full with at least a 90% quorum during the entire reading.
3. when congress is in session - no aid or others are allowed on the floor to distract the congress critters. No cell or data connections allowed to the floor when in session so they can focus.
4. congress should be limited to 7 months in session per year. Five months where things can be passed and 2 months where the only actions allowed are to repeal existing laws, acts, regulations - no adds of any kind.
5. five months of the year they are to be gone - back home - and that time must be continuous.
As far as I’m concerned they work too hard already. The last thing we need is more laws. Give them six months unpaid leave.
Someone once said something too effect that the country is most threatened when Congress is in session.
In my state the Legislature only meets once every two years, and then only for 90 days.
And that’s too often...
Really? Congress should be in session more? Don’t they do enough damage in the time they are in session?
After 4 weeks schmoozing it up in D.C. with your buddy legislators, getting sucked off by lobbyists, and snorting coke off a 22 year old intern's ass, if you have not passed a budget, you go home to your full-time yob and the federal government shuts off.
With these newfangled computers and Skype there’s no reason why we can’t move the federal capitol to a fortified bunker of servers in, say, Kansas City and turn Washington DC into a strictly tourist town with (very) occasional gatherings by the big bugs for swearings-in and public hangings.
(OK, there might be a lot of air miles for hangings.)
But if the lowing critters and our bird-of-paradise senators spend more time moving among the hoi polloi and listening to us, and less time breathing the rarified air of Foggy Bottom, we’ll have fewer failures to communicate, as has been the rule rather than the exception recently.
For example, if my critter’s e-mails to us local yokels are any indication, just as Cantor and Luger and Boehner came as a `Shazaam!’ surprise to them, as hard as it is to believe, they have no real comprehension of the political tsunami that’s coming.
Every bill to be voted on should be read aloud. They can take turns.
DeSantis for Senate.
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