Steny Hoyer: House members to work 5-day weeks starting January!

[npincus]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501342_pf.html

No more Tues to Thursday work week!

Sam Seder reading the story on AAR- no linky yet.



(on edit: link + this a dupe thread on this subject, I see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2867907 )

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Welcome to the real world, Congresscritters.

[AndyA]

2. That is what the House should have been doing all along.

The do nothing GOP-led Congress was a huge waste of time and money. It has been a disgrace. The American people have been taken advantage of by every single member of Congress who went along with these lax work hours.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Obstructing the Constitution and appeasing fascists was all they

did.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Would you rather have had the GOP there passing more of thier laws?

[Hubert Flottz]

8. That's who I was talking about Freddie.

The GOPer gang in congress were all as guilty as W!

[mtnester]

3. That is about two days a week less than me and the hubby each work

so they should be FINE with that.

Any whining should be cut off at the knees immediately.

[npincus]

6. and those bastards wanted to vote on a raise!

while the poorest among us haven't had a minimum wage increase in nearly a decade.

[mtnester]

11. And so the whining begins

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2867907


Do you think I can verbally tear the knees of a whiner like this? Could anyone be SCATHING enough to shame this person at ALL?

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

7. Any whining and I'll email the assholes

Under the Bush Ownership Society, I work on average a 60 hour workweek for about 1/5 of what they make. They can go fuck themselves if they need to cry about working.

Under their "leadership" my household expenses have gone up over $1000/month, and my annual salary went down by $18k from last year, and $25K from the year before.

DBDB

[sallyseven]

9. My congress critter uses his week ends to come to

the district. He meets with the citizens, attends events honoring people, visits schools, speaks with the local government people etc. It is time well spent. He did schools on Monday mornings and Friday afternoons he did veterans and people events. I just wish that Steny Hoyer wasn't such a show boat. He annoys the hell out of me. In the district they work Saturdays and Sundays. So until you people know what the hell your talking about shut the hell up. The demands on the reps are substantial.

[Renew Deal]

10. You're extremely lucky

Mine doesn't do shit. He just shows up on TV once in a while.

[OzarkDem]

14. He can still do that

He doesn't have to be at work until 6 pm Monday evening and can leave at 2 pm on Friday. That's enough time to still get out in the district on those days.

I can understand why they're doing this. There's a lot of work to do.

[sweetheart]

12. get them on a punchclock

The petititon:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/848657125?ltl=1165425468

[KingFlorez]

13. Great

It's about time

[applegrove]

15. Perhaps they will actually solve a problem or two. Instead of just

creating more mayhem like the GOP triad did.