Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days’ work this summer

We’re not paying you to party on donors’ yachts.

Say what you will about Congressional partisan divisions, there’s one area of unity: the need for self-care.

That’s why the House voted to give itself only 9 days of work between Jul 2 and Sept 19 (the Senate’s workaholics will put in 11 days’ work out of 75 summer days).

I get it. It’s been a tough 18 months. Who isn’t tired?

But Congress already works a three-day week (the remaining two days are spent “dialing for dollars,” begging rich people for money in exchange for making policy that benefits the wealthy).

The country is already on fire. Delta-variant Covid cases are spiking. Buildings are literally collapsing. The annual, worsening floods and tornadoes and hurricanes are headed our way, and the country’s emergency systems are in tatters.

As Ralph Nader writes for Common Dreams, Congress should not be taking any summer recess. We’re still in an all-hands-on-deck emergency — the crisis is not behind us. Goofing off now is like taking a nap before you extinguish the mattress fire.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/27/leaves-must-be-canceled-all-hands-congressional-deck