The US House of Representatives is leaving Washington FOR FIVE WEEKS????

[a kennedy]

What the hell for??? Five weeks???

[Takket]

1. campain season

think of it as 5 weeks the house cannot pass a bunch of bullshit laws we can't oppose

[docgee]

2. +1 for that

[a kennedy]

3. Right, but damn......most working stiffs don't even get a couple weeks for vacation

and lots of them don’t even take that......It’s just sick.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. We don't gets lots of "stuff" they give themselves...

and yes, it sucks. Not a farking thing we can do about it.

[Va Lefty]

4. Best time of the year

No more cuts to Social Security or Medicaid etc. Stay away another Month!

[2naSalit]

6. right?

[WePurrsevere]

5. It you think Fed is bad check out the states. NYS...

Is recessed until... January 2019. 6 months on, 6 months off and they get paid around $80k per year for that.

And then we wonder why barely anything ever gets done.

[2naSalit]

7. In the last several states I've lived in

they meet for three months, once every two years.

[WePurrsevere]

9. How on earth can they gov properly like that? nt

[2naSalit]

10. Small population and tax base

we can't afford to have them hanging around full time, they need to get stuff done and then go home. In my state, they do enough damage in three months to require a decade of remediation.

[WePurrsevere]

17. Ahh.. That makes sense. And in your state's case...

It sounds like less is not only more but too much. I'm sorry you live somewhere like that. I complain but I know I'm lucky to live in a fairly consistent blue state.

I'm just more annoyed with NY's than usual this year since they were literally this || close to passing a bill allowing adoptees to get their original birth certificates as an equal rights issue when they recessed so it won't be until next year and that's IF they put through the one bill they had that Cuomo will actually sign and not just some 'jump through major hoops and hope' type like they tried to put through earlier this year. It's not a huge issue for most I know but it is for adoptee rights advocates.

[2naSalit]

19. I understand

I spent many of my younger years in the far NE, along the coast... and I plan to die, right here, in the northern Rockies above 5K ft.. I'll weather most of the crap as long as they haven't started mining the whole mountain range before I croak. The politics are kind of screwy, as they are everywhere, but the landscape makes up for much of that. My intention is to preserve the wild lands and wildlife as long as I can. As of late, there's a new threat beyond the extractive industries like mining, ranching and timber harvest... tourism is taking its toll and has gotten completely out of hand as evidenced by the bison calf in the SUV or idiots strolling through Grand Prismatic Spring, that kind of sh*t happens thousands of times a day and will help hasten the ecological crash that is becoming more inevitable.

Ugh, more coffee!

[WePurrsevere]

20. The Adirondacks deal with tourists like you describe...

It's a constant battle to fight against those who think of the wilderness as a community playground they can do what they want to in instead of a home to millions of animals and plants that to be protected and honoured. I simply don't understand that mentality. I am now even more thankful however that the Adirondacks are state and not federal land and are heavily protected.

[lordsummerisle]

8. Funny how they're

dropping the Rosenstein impeachment bill right before leaving...

[KelleyKramer]

11. You do realize they do that every year, right?

They have been doing it as long as I can remember

They have been doing it so long, it even has a name... it's called the August recess

It's supposed to be a time that reps go home to meet with their constituents

[a kennedy]

12. I know about the August recess....that along with two weeks for every damn political

holiday, July 4th, Veterans, day, Memorial Day, Spring recess, Summer recess. Just saying.........

[KelleyKramer]

14. You just seemed really surprised about something that has happened every year for over 100 yrs

[brooklynite]

15. 2009 House Recess...August 10-September 7

Nothing new.

[NCTraveler]

16. One needs ample time to get rid of the Republican stench.

"The devil came here yesterday, and it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of." Chavez

Takes more than a day.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Why are you upset?

It's five less weeks Republicans can do damage to the country.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Because it's hot and humid in D.C.

The custom probably made some sense earlier, but since the invention of air-conditioning, not so much.

It might be a good time to visit my Rep's office, but I don't have anything to say, other than "keep up the good work".

She's in a rock-solid Dem district, and not being challenged in the primary, from the right or the left. I'm not even sure if there's a Republican challenger.

[bdamomma]

22. I guess things are

status quo and the Russians have everything at hand.

Jerks

[WillowTree]

23. You do understand that it's the law, right?

Look up the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970.