“Keeping us up here eats away at families. Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.” –Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) on the horrors of the five-day work week.
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“Keeping us up here eats away at families. Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.” –Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) on the horrors of the five-day work week.
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Yeah this guy is a jackass. He should just quit if he’s worried about his family.
Wah.
How much are we paying these bozos?
Oh yeah — $165,200 a year. And they still won’t have to be in the office until 6 PM on Mondays.
Wow. Having to work a 5-day work week like the rest of us would hurt the families? Who knew?
I can only assume that Rep. Kingston would then favor moving the nation to a 32-hour (or, apparently, 24-hour) work week.
That’s a joke, of course. This assclown would never support that.
I am absolutely appalled at the hypocrisy of the majority of the House and the Senate, constantly raising their wages and reducing their hours while voting against such measures for regular Americans. And not being a guy who tosses around words like “appalled” lightly, that’s saying something.
Preemptively I’m annoyed at Democrats for doing the same thing. Not yet. But give it four years. Hopefully I’ll be wrong.
Classic. Just classic.
By the time the gavel comes down on the 109th Congress on Friday, members will have worked a total of 103 days. That’s seven days fewer than the infamous “Do-Nothing Congress” of 1948.
Guess you don’t need to show up for work when you have handed the Ship of State over to the Whitehouse.
That’s a really good point, Bubby.
Even with a “5 day workweek” they still aren’t working anything close to a normal work schedule that would mirror the average citizen.
And this quote from the article makes me wonder if the 5 day workweek isn’t just smoke and mirrors- the 5 day work week might not mean 40 hour work week. And its looking like it’s really just a 3 and 3/4’ths day workweek.
Hey I’d love it if I didn’t have to show up for work until 6:30pm monday evening and got to go home at 2pm on Friday, plus made 6 figures- and got all that time off during the year.
This sorta thing makes me see red every time I read about bullshit like it. They’ve got a really decent salary, yet they won’t vote to raise minimum wage. They get really great health benefits- yet they won’t do anything to see that the rest of the nation has anything at all. And they get more time off then any employee of any other industry (even federal employees are only guaranteed 10 days off each year). I’d simply be happy if the United States adopted something like the 1 month holiday that Australia has for it’s citizens.
It is kinda funny that the guy spearheading the five-day workweek is a representative from…Maryland. No skin off his back.
It certainly didn’t take Rep. Jack Kingston long to learn how to be a member of the minority, bitching and kvetching at virtually whatever the majority wants to do, but he sure coulda picked a better battle than whining about a longer work week.
That said, one can certainly make the argument that the less time Congress spends in session, the better off the country will be. I say that realizing there are important, legitimate congressional oversight responsibilities that have been allowed to whither on the vine these last 6 years. But apart from those, I really don’t want these folks in session anymore than is absolutely necessary.
Remember when some legislative staffer slipped language into a funding bill that would allow certain Congressmen to access citizen’s tax records? And because Legislators did not take the time to read the final bill they were voting on, it passed, only to have to be recinded because a citizen watchdog group caught it.
Reps and Senators will tell you that they often don’t read the legistlation they are voting on. Who does? Staffers and Lobbyists. The volume of legislation both State and Federal is ridiculous. It defies any measure of responsible government.
Here is my proposal. If legislation is too long to be read by legislators, it is bad legislation. If Legislators don’t have time to read the legislation they want to vote on, they are bad Legislators. If there is too much legislation to review it should be prioritized by the leadership so that what is voted upon is fully reviewed, and debated.
I didn’t know Rep. Kingston was so … French.
Seriously, if I e-mail him a copy of my six day work schedules, do you think he’ll sponsor legislation to limit the total number of hours a company can make employees work?
Oh, he has a blog: http://kingston.house.gov/blog/ – with a post about how he works “two jobs” – one in DC, one at home. Wonder how many comments he’s gonna get?