Incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who will set the schedule for the 110th Congress, has told members they “will have to work five days a week starting in January.†If the current Congress departs on Friday as planned, it will have been in session for just 241 days over two years,
13 days less than the “Do-Nothing Congress†of 1948.http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/06/thinkfast-december-6-2006/Aside from the fact that a five day work week for someone who is serving what should be a noble endeavor is simply a no-brainer, this is symbolic in a way that makes me feel they are going to be working.
It would really have me stoked if Hoyer informed the Congress they would have to be present for EVERY vote and EVERY debate on the floor.
