Congressional Republicans Shocked! By Proposed 5 Day Work Week

WASHINGTON - Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.
The horror.
"By the time the gavel comes down on the 109th Congress on Friday, members will have worked a total of 103 days. That's seven days fewer than the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress" of 1948."
Republicans have responded to the the call for a 5 day work week by calling Democrats "anti-family".
"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that's what this says."
Incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer unveiled a depressingly draconian schedule for the new congress though."I have bad news for you," Hoyer told reporters. "Those trips you had planned in January, forget 'em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th."
This horrible abuse to be heaped upon the new congress as the old congress tries to sneak through a pay raise in the wanning days of their sleepy regime.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and incoming Speaking Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have notified their colleagues that they will try to add an anti-pay-raise provision to a must-pass bill that provides funds to keep the government running.
“The 109th Congress is packing its bags for good and leaving town today without enacting nine of the 11 appropriations bills that pay for the federal government.” “It’s a spectacular disorder of chaos,” said incoming House Appropriations Chair David Obey (D-WI). “We will have to run a cleanup brigade.”

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