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Constituent Work Week: Do you know where your Congressman is?

Wherever they are, there's a good chance they're not working. That's right, because the leadership of the newly Republican controlled Congress has adopted a new rule. Work two weeks and have one week off. Yes, you read that correctly. Work two weeks and have one week off. What a gig...certainly would make my life a lot easier if I could afford such a work schedule.

The weeks off are called Constituent Work Week-- giving the perception that the week would be at home schmoozing--I mean talking, and meeting with constituents. Nice try, but is every third week really necessary?  How much concrete work is accomplished in two weeks? Take the week of February 7, 2011 for example, already a short week, because no one worked on Monday. The remainder of the week was centered on bills voting to restrict abortion rights.

So much for the never-ending Republican mantra of  “less government”. And what about focusing on and creating new jobs Mr. Beynore? Isn't that supposed to be your top priority? Vice President Biden is talking about getting Americans back to work and creating new jobs with a much-needed high-speed rail  infrastructure system. China has one, Japan has one, South Korea has one, the UK has one, France, Germany, and Italy have one... and the best you can do to put America back to work is to vote on abortion bills?

Check out the 112th's Congress House Schedule. It looks like they filled it up with holidays, so people wouldn't realize when they're not working. But we're smarter than that. Get to work Mr. Boehner and Mr. Cantor. I'll be keeping tabs on you...and by the way, where are the jobs?