why nothing ever gets done in Washington? Maybe it's because in the 1970's and 80's the House used to meet 162 days a year- this year they are going to meet for only about 71 days. And if that wasn't bad enough, for habitual absentee Senator (in name only) Kerry the number is dramatically lower than that.
Is this one of those jobs Americans won't do they keep talking about?
Is this one of those jobs Americans won't do they keep talking about?
ABC News: 'Do-Nothing Congress' Raises Critics' Ire: "May 12, 2006 — Members of Congress know the Washington-area airports very well. Most members use them twice a week, arriving for work late Tuesday and scurrying back to their home states on Thursday. Congress is on schedule to meet fewer days this year than any Congress since 1948 — the year President Harry Truman campaigned against what he called the 'do-nothing Congress.'
'They call it the Tuesday to Thursday Club,' said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. 'That means you get here Tuesday night, you have a few easy votes, you vote on Wednesday and then you go back home Thursday afternoon. And that, believe it or not, is considered a work week in Washington.'
Rank-and-file members of Congress earn $165,200 a year, and this year for the first time they took off for a St. Patrick's Day holiday." more
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