{"id":3689,"date":"2007-10-27T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/10\/house-democarts-plan-a-shorter.html"},"modified":"2007-10-27T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:46:00","slug":"house-democarts-plan-a-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/10\/house-democarts-plan-a-shorter.html","title":{"rendered":"House Democarts plan a shorter work week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though they promised to work harder and longer than the Republican controlled congress. I guess this<\/a> is just one more campaign promise that they’ve decided to break. How are you going to believe anything they say in 2008?<\/p>\n

Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly declared that they would put Congress back to work, promising an “end to the two-day workweek.” And indeed, the House has clocked more time in Washington this year than in any other session since 1995, when Republicans, newly in control, sought to make a similar point.
\nBut 10 months into the session, with their legislative agenda often in gridlock with the Bush administration and a big election year looming, the Democrats are now planning a lighter schedule when the 110th Congress begins its second year in mid-January.
\nThe House majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, told fellow Democrats this week that the House would not be in session next year on Fridays, except in June for work on appropriations bills.
\nExplaining that decision to reporters, Mr. Hoyer said, “I do intend to have more time for members to work in their districts and to be close to their families.”
\nHis comments drew snickers from Republicans, who are quite happy to share their view that the American people did not get much value for all the extra time lawmakers spent in Washington.
\n“Is this a reward for our accomplishments in 2007<\/span>?” asked Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the Republican whip.
\n[…]
\nOn Wednesday, the House cast its one-thousandth roll-call vote of the year, the first time that it reached that mark since the Constitution was ratified. Democrats hailed the occasion, while Republicans sniped that only 106 of the votes were on bills ultimately signed into law, and that 45 of those bestowed names on post offices or other property.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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