The House of Representatives will cut back on Fridays during the 113th Congress, being in session only 15 Fridays through all of 2013, which is nearly a 30% drop from 2011.
The House was in session for 21 Fridays in 2011. In 2013, Representatives will “work only one Friday for nine months out of the year, and two Fridays for the other three months.”
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) released the schedule on Friday and said part of his goal was to “ensure that we never lose touch with the constituents we each represent while completing our work in Washington.
Read more at Breitbart.com. By Tony Lee.
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Then they need to be Paid ONLY on days they Actually work or do any thing.
“ensure that we never lose touch with the constituents we each represent while completing our work in Washington. Baggahhahhhahhhhh. They no longer work on constitutional law and it does not take a full week to kiss BO butt! Actually the more they are gone the better off we are. If I had my way they could take the whole year off.
We may be better off if they stay home those 15 fridays also; they never solve any problems in those sessions anyway, the longer they are in Washington the worse things get. What we really need is to give at least 90 per cent of them a lay-off notice.