Timothy Roemer: “I would like to thank him, he was not on the floor when I rose 2 weeks ago to thank him for his cooperation on getting…”

“I would like to thank him, he was not on the floor when I rose 2 weeks ago to thank him for his cooperation on getting not just Members with their families but staffs with their families on Valentine's Day. Certainly the majority leader does not want to hear more of my terrible, horrible poetry to try to get us back on the family-friendly schedule. I don't want to have to resort to torture to do that. But certainly a lot of Members and their families want to see increased efficiency in terms of the congressional schedule. They want to see if we work 70-hour, 80-hour weeks, that maybe there are procedures that we can use at the end of the day so that we do not see repeats of Monday and Thursday night of this past week, of staying in an hour over when we could have informed Members that we had the last vote. I would just ask the majority leader a couple of questions. First of all, can you give us any more idea, with predictability in mind, on the schedule for Wednesday and Thursday of next week, specific times?”