Next thing you know, Congress will adopt the ROWE dynamic

Ladies and gentleman welcome to the life of the middle class family. I'd say this is exactly the sort of experience Mr. Kingston needs in order to stay in touch with the folks who voted him in. How appalling to suddenly realize that if you are working allot you wont get to see your children as much.

You are almost their Mr. Kingston, just a few more synaptic connections and the picture may actually become clear to you.

Come on, man! Democrats could not care less about families. If you're going to make a sweeping generalization at least get it right.

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The optimist in me can't wait for the next Congress to get to work.

The pessimist thinks that this is just another way Congress members are going to justify giving themselves a pay raise...not that they've ever needed to justify it in the past..

A congressman makes almost $160,000 a year. More for a congressional leader. And they worked 103 days?

That means they got over a thousand dollars every time they showed up and agreed to eviscerate the constitution. I may just cry.

"When asked for his opinion on Hoyer's plan, Rep. Dante Hicks (I-Nj.) said, 'I'm not even supposed to be here today!'"



(note to whomever edited my story: what's with all the line breaks? good lord.)

First the Republicans screwed up the country now its the Dem's turn

I'm not about to defend Congress...but I'd ask you not to focus on the number of days they work. Judge them by the quality of their work, not the number of days they put in.

For example...I only work about 88 days a year. I still work a 44 hour week, but that's condensed into 24 hour shifts. If you figured out what I got paid based on how many DAYS I work...it would seem a lot higher than what I actually make.

Awwww...

Hey you, republican dickhead, go fuck yourself.

You voted for a war that keep many people away from their families for months, even years, fighting a bullshit war.

A good point, but the past few congresses have been awful, hence the despair.

I honestly don't understand why this is such a profound idea, that is, actually showing up to work. And while I can appreciate Cash's comment I highly doubt there's a single congressman/woman who works a 24 hour day on any type of consistent basis (aside from maybe when they're trying to keep their job). I understand that representatives need to spend part of the time with their constituency, but you can't bitch when you spend that time alloted to you on vacation (ie the long breaks they get). You abuse a priviledge, you get it taken away. It's like they're little children. We shouldn't even have to be having this conversation. It's REDiculous. *rant*

Good article SenorCrispy...

"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families_that's what this says."

Whoever said this needs his nuts kicked in. What about truck drivers or soldiers or any other number of working people that get to see thier families far less. Seriously, someone kick his nuts in.

It's sad that they couldn't do their work like they were paid to do. Maybe they should get docked pay?

I mean, they're obviously not hourly. If they're salary, and they don't fulfill their job duties, they get fired...just like any other job. Except since we can't fire them, maybe at least sue them for reimbursement for an unfulfilled contract.

This sounds like they need oversight! *cough*

It was always a full time job. Only the job was raising as much money as you can instead of governing. Lets hope that's what really changes.

These fuckers should have to punch a damn clock and be able to stay in office 20 years if they want to collect their full pension...

Good point. Campaigns seem to be getting longer and more expensive.