In a departure from their original schedule, the House plans to adjourn at the end of the day Thursday until after the midterm elections, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (r-Calif.) announced.Lawmakers will now have extra time to hit the campaign trail, leaving Washington until the lame-duck session in November.The House was originally set to be in session through Friday to vote on consolidated packages of so-called “jobs bills” and measures to boost domestic energy that it has already passed. Now, members will be able to head for the exits as soon as the House finishes work on the energy package.
DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel responded by putting repugicans on blast, “House repugicans are now abandoning any
pretense of doing actual work for the American people, skipping town one
day after doing the bare minimum required to keep the government
functioning but blocking any progress for the middle class. House repugicans have proved yet again that they are only interested in doing
their jobs long enough to stack the deck for special interests and
launch political stunts. Democrats are committed to jumpstarting our
middle class, not setting the government on autopilot and then heading
for vacation.”
House repugicans aren’t even trying to fool the
American people anymore. It doesn’t matter that the “jobs bills” that
the House was supposed to vote on were not really jobs bills. In House repugican speak, anything that provides a tax cut to the wealthy or
guts a regulation is a jobs bill. The reality is that House repugicans
don’t do what most people would consider to be jobs bills.
John Boehner is fond of saying that jobs are his top
priority, but the Speaker couldn’t even stick around town long enough
to vote for his fake jobs bills. The best part about this whole deal for
House repugicans is that they will still be getting paid for assigning
themselves more vacation.
The American people need a Congress that will show
up for work. If you decided on your own to not show up for work, you’d
be fired on the spot. Voters need to give House repubgcans the same
treatment.
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