With a stacked agenda, and time running out before midterm elections and the end of the year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he may have to eat into members’ vacation time if they don’t move quickly on issues like financial reform and nominations.
“I also told my caucus — I haven’t had a chance to tell Senator McConnell today — I said there’s no definite decision been made yet, but the first week of our vacation in August, don’t put family vacations in there or something that you can’t get out of, because we may have to be here,” McConnell told reporters at his weekly press conference.
Reid says the Senate has no choice but to finish up work on financial reform next week, despite objections from his counter part, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, that the bill should be on the floor for more than two weeks.