Both Democratic and Republican House lawmakers are annoyed the House is recessing early and not addressing key issues before the 2024 election.
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"On the House floor on Tuesday, lawmakers burst into applause when it was announced that scheduled votes for Thursday and Friday would be canceled. However, the announcement angered some like Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who
famously called out the Republican conference last year for a weak voting record and giving members nothing on which to go home to their districts and campaign.“
America always loses when these clowns — did you see what just happened right now? They all applauded because we’re leaving a day early. ‘Oh, we get to go home a day early.’ You know what I mean? The hardworking average American out there doesn’t get to leave a day early,” Roy said to reporters Tuesday. “They need a government that’s not incompetent, but everybody up there just applauded, Democrats and Republicans.
From the July 4 recess to last Wednesday, House lawmakers have only voted on 19 days per the schedule — which amounts to lawmakers spending less than 20% of a three-month period on Capitol Hill.
The GOP-controlled House
barely avoided a government shutdown after two weeks of GOP infighting over a continuing resolution, passing a clean stopgap spending deal on Wednesday that kicks the deadline for expiring appropriations bills to Dec. 20.
Roy had argued that he would not have put the clean CR on the House floor and instead would have taken more days to fight for the inclusion of voter integrity in the spending legislation. The Texas congressman’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would bar noncitizens from voting in federal elections, was included in the
initial CR that failed on the floor on Sept. 18 but not in the one passed Wednesday.
“What do you think will happen at Christmas? You know what happens at Christmas. So when we set these fights up that expire in December, America loses,” Roy said. “We could have avoided that had Republicans united around a plan to get it past Christmas and fight for the SAVE Act. Had some of our colleagues who didn’t want to do that.”
“But here we are. We’re gonna walk out of town, and we gotta go convince the American people to trust this: Next time, we’ll do what we said we would do,” Roy added.
The lords and ladies playing their games. We lose every time. Term limits. Democrat and Republican voters should demand it.
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