WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House has postponed votes this coming week — including one on overriding
President Barack Obama’s health care veto — because of the snowstorm
that has socked in the nation’s capital.
Senators aren’t scheduled to return to work until Tuesday, and there’s been no announcement about a change.
The House already was planning on a short work week because Democrats are
set to hold their annual legislative retreat beginning Wednesday in
Baltimore.
The office of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says the House won’t be holding votes on Tuesday or Wednesday because of the storm and how it’s affected travel.
That’s pushing off the override vote of Obama’s veto of Republican-backed legislation to repeal his health overhaul. That vote is now expected during the week of Feb. 1.
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The House delays votes on sunny days, why should a blizzard be any different?
This year the House will be in session fewer days than not. How many jobs are there where the employee determines their pay and benefits and then schedules their own work days so that they hafta show up TWO days a week on an average work week (take into account they leave for 5 weeks around August in normal years)?? And they pay themselves a base salary of $174,000/yr.
As if they need a snowstorm to cancel convening Congress. They’re not fooling anybody. For the entire year the House is scheduled to be in session 111 days anyway. That’s a paltry number of days considering what we pay them and the perks they receive.
Meanwhile they do nothing when in session besides hold symbolic votes for their idiotic base and a hand full of lobbyists, who keep tabs on scoring their record. These fuckers have done less than nothing since the Republicans got the majority in Congress.
OR, the GOTP goes into session as soon as the Dems leave on Wed and overturn Obamas veto.
So they can’t show up to a basic day of work, but can always find time to criticize hard-working Federal Employees who work full-time…
Whew … I’m sure that Marco is relieved ! —