The 2007 congressional schedule

[Joanne98]

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12/10/2006
2007 Congressional Schedule is Posted - 145 days in session.
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Author: WhosPlayin (12:52 am)
The work schedule for the 2007 Congress has been posted.
The 2007 congressional calendar, by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer goes through the end of October and has Members working 4 1/2 days per week instead of the 3 days maintained under the Republican leadership.


January: 16 voting days, 2 days "Republican Retreat", off for MLK day, Swearing in, and voting begins Jan 4th.
February: 12 voting days, 5 days "District Work Period", 2 days "Democratic Retreat"
March: 19 voting days
April: 10 voting days, 10 days "District Work Period" (including Passover, Good Friday, and Easter)
May: 17 voting days, 4 days "District Work Period"
June: 19 voting days, 1 day "District Work Period"
July: 15 voting days, 5 days "District Work Period" including July 4th.
August: 3 voting days, 20 days "District Work Period"
September: 15 voting days (4 days off for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur)
October: 19 voting days with scheduled adjournment on the 26th

Members will be required to be in DC for 145 days, and will have ALL weekends off. Congressmen will generally be required to be present by 6:30pm on Monday nights when Congress is in session.

There are 45 days marked as "District Work Period".

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[Joanne98]

1. This is what they're doing tommorow....

The Republicans are on Tweety right now CRYING! "We haven't been able to see the bill". DO YOU WANT WINE WITH THAT CHEESE?:)

Democrats Top Agenda with Ethics

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. House Democrats finalized ethics reforms, which they say they will pass Thursday, that bar travel paid for by lobbyists and ban gifts and meals.

A day after announcing they would dominate the first 100 legislative hours of the 110th U.S. Congress, the Democrats plan to pass ethics bills that would also require the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee to pre-approve travel paid for by outside groups and require lawmakers to pay the market cost of flying on corporate jets, The Hill, a Washington newspaper, reported.

Party sources told The Hill the practices of changing conference reports after members have signed them and excluding elected members from conference committees will also be discontinued.

After Congress members are sworn in at noon EST Thursday, Democrats will hold a 233-202 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and a 51-49 edge in the U.S. Senate for their first congressional majority in 12 years.
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