As if there weren’t enough political problems to deal with, here we are eight days out from a possible Big Problem that wasn’t even on the horizon as a minor problem a week ago. It’s the national debt limit. We hear about it every so often, and it seems to be important - the way the GOP has been playing with it the past ten years, it has certainly become important - but most of us have no clue what it really is. And that’s how the GOP manages to play fast and loose with it as they do. As my friend Lucian K. Truscott IV noted the other day, politics may well be my “first language.” So let me “wonk-out” here and clue you in.
The August congressional recess is a relic of the days before air conditioning when the members of Congress left town to escape from the oppressive heat and humidity of August in Washington DC. Now that every one of those lawmakers and their staffers have air conditioned offices they need to stay in town and work until ALL of the legislation is passed.
Yes, Karen. Similar to school out for 2 1/2 to 3 months in the summer so kids can “help on the farm with the crops and summer work”. Scheduling with rigid patterns of the past is ridiculous and creates “deficiency in efficiency”.
The August congressional recess is a relic of the days before air conditioning when the members of Congress left town to escape from the oppressive heat and humidity of August in Washington DC. Now that every one of those lawmakers and their staffers have air conditioned offices they need to stay in town and work until ALL of the legislation is passed.
Yes, Karen. Similar to school out for 2 1/2 to 3 months in the summer so kids can “help on the farm with the crops and summer work”. Scheduling with rigid patterns of the past is ridiculous and creates “deficiency in efficiency”.