{"id":39498,"date":"2013-11-01T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/working-hard-or-hardly-working-congress-style.html"},"modified":"2013-11-04T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:09:10","slug":"working-hard-or-hardly-working-congress-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/working-hard-or-hardly-working-congress-style.html","title":{"rendered":"Working Hard or Hardly Working (Congress Style)"},"content":{"rendered":"
How much will the House of Representatives be working next year? \u00a0Not very much. \u00a0After all, it's an election year, not to mention wanting to keep a whole government shut down.<\/p>\n

(And, yes, I don't know how this matches previous congressional calendars. And, yes, I realize that Reps spend at least some time in their home districts schmoozing with the local Rotarians and other contributors, especially during an election year. \u00a0But … man, I'd still love to have that PTO schedule.)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daily Kos :: House Republicans announce how many days they’ll work next year (hint: not very many)<\/a>
\n I think posting this calendar is rather unkind. After all, without all those free days, how can we expect incumbent Republican fiscal terrorists to fend off primary season attacks from the even-more-extreme right? They need time to be able to campaign, in order to convince Republican voters that …\n <\/p>\n

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How much will the House of Representatives be working next year? \u00a0Not very much. \u00a0After all, it's an election year, not to mention wanting to keep a whole government shut down. (And, yes, I don't know how this matches previous congressional calendars. And, yes, I realize that Reps spend at least some time in their … Continue reading “Working Hard or Hardly Working (Congress Style)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30785,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/yes-clearly-just-another-voting-suppressive-mistake.html","url_meta":{"origin":39498,"position":0},"title":"Yes, clearly just another voting-suppressive mistake","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 3:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Maricopa County in Arizona again seems to have (purely innocently, of course) given the wrong date for the election in Spanish-language materials.'Yvonne Reed, spokesperson for the Maricopa County Department of Elections, told HuffPost that some of the Spanish-language notices were incorrect because the department used the election date from last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26220,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/yes-its-once-more-everyones-favorite-whats-at-stake-this-coming.html","url_meta":{"origin":39498,"position":1},"title":"Yes, it's once more everyone's favorite What's At Stake This Coming …","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it's once more everyone's favorite What's At Stake This Coming ElectionIt's the perennial refrain each election, sure ... but it's hard to argue with numbers.Three SCOTUS justices will turn 80 before the end of the next presidential term: liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, conservative Antonin Scalia, and perennial swing vote\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2Fscotusjustices-300x168.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":137424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-2018-election-the-colorado-perspective.html","url_meta":{"origin":39498,"position":2},"title":"The 2018 Election: The Colorado Perspective","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-18 11:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(As of 11:50pm MST) The Candidates: Jared Polis (D) has won for governor (replacing the previous D who was term-limited out). 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