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Rae Oliver Davis: “The idea of working 100 hours would normally translate into about 3 days or 4 days worth of work, possibly 5 if you had…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2007
The idea of working 100 hours would normally translate into about 3 days or 4 days worth of work, possibly 5 if you had really to get something done... what we have here was somewhat misleading to the American people who expected 100 hours in the last Congress would have been accomplished in a very short period of time. But I think we are taking a more comfortable pace, doing 100 hours 2 hours at a time. Instead of having votes ending at midnight or 1 in the morning we are getting done at 3 in the afternoon now.
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Rae Oliver Davis
Independent · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the pace of legislative work in Congress.

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