And they are heading for home a week early. Afterall, those last 8 days were Positively Grueling!
Nice work if you can get it
by Steve Benen, msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show -- 09/18/14
[...] they were supposed to show up tomorrow and four days the week of Sept. 29 -- but they’ve decided not to bother.
And so, over the 14 weeks spanning the beginning of August and the middle of November, House members will work a grand total of eight days -- out of a possible 103. And after today, they’ll be away from work for the next 54 days.
[...]
That works out to a 7.7% attendance rate.
Or put another way about a 92% No Show rate. (During that same period when it kind of seemed 'the world was falling apart at the seams'.)
But I guess, it kind of goes with the territory -- the Gridlocked, Do-Nothing, GOP Territory ...
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Absolutely Exhausting!