Bob Wise: “First of all, to those who said we want to work from this side of the aisle, some of the previous speakers, we want to…”

“First of all, to those who said we want to work from this side of the aisle, some of the previous speakers, we want to work, too. The trouble is we have not been working all the way up to here. Today's Wall Street Journal opinion by Al Hunt: A mediocre congressional session; points out that if this Congress adjourns this weekend, it will be the earliest in 32 years. The schedule that the Republican Party has just released to the Democrats for next year, all the ones in type are no votes. That means that the House does not come back until January 26 of next year, takes a week off in February, seems to work pretty much through March. We take this amount of period, about 2 rac{1}{2} ext{ weeks}, off in April; skip through to July, where the House then takes off from the 1st to the 13th, one of the longest Fourth of July breaks I have seen; does take the traditional August 3-week period, that is traditional; and then takes another week and a half in September. So not a whole lot of work is being scheduled, and this House is adjourning this weekend without doing campaign finance reform, without doing a major highway bill and without doing a lot of significant legislation.”