Kick the squatters out of the Capitol

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Allowing members of Congress to sleep in their offices is unseemly — and unethical.

As many as 100 members of Congress, including the speaker of the House, bunk down in their work spaces every night.

It may also be illegal. Fire codes aside, squatters benefit from free utilities, cable TV, internet access and cleaning services. This may violate congressional ethics rules, which prohibit members from using official resources for anything other than incidental personal needs. At the least, lodging on government premises should be treated as a taxable fringe benefit — in the same way that congressional parking spaces are.

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2018/04/10/As-Others-See-It-Kick-the-squatters-out-of-the-Capitol/stories/201804100018

[Shrike47]

1. Not very compelling as an issue. Washington is expensive. I do not want to raise their pay.

[fierywoman]

2. Or they could pay $50 a night ...

[Volaris]

3. If Congress as a whole could demonstrate that they were doing actual and useful work,

That we pay them to do, I wouldn't mind so much. If i have an extra long work week, or wierd off - hours stuff, I sleep at my office just so I don't have to waste the time in the car going home and back.

If some ambitious congressperson needs to crash on an office couch, so be it. But their ambition had better be benefiting ALL of us.