One day after announcing that lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill next week, House leadership on Tuesday decided against going back so soon.
House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer said on reflection, the leaders decided it’s better to wait.
“After hearing from our members and consulting with the speaker and the attending physician, the House will not reconvene next week,” he said. “We will return once the CARES 2 [stimulus] package is ready.”
Hoyer had announced Monday the chamber would return from recess in a week. Lawmakers have been away from Capitol Hill since March 26. The Senate still plans to return Monday.
McConnell said Senate routines will be modified in “ways that are smart and safe.”
A group of House Democrats told Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday that returning was a “dangerous” idea. Others said a lack of childcare would also present a challenge.
So far, seven members of congress have either tested positive for COVID-19 or are presumed to have been infected.
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Cowards, wimps, lazy, corrupt, fear mongers. Stay away from washington dc permanently. You cause less damage when you’re hiding under your beds.
Would that hiding in their girl caves and isolated from the virus of Trump derangement syndrome would cure them of that disease there could be a hidden blessing. Taking socialist collectives from their ability to collectively screw up the country is not a bad thing. America runs best whenever it is governed the least. That is the essence of the power of THE PEOPLE to SELF-govern successfully without corrupt inept politicians just getting in the way, unable to lead and refusing to follow. Those cold damp Pelosi Fuhrer bunkers must be getting rather stale and damp. The Democrat ground hogs must have seen their shadows and retreated back to their dark holes while the Brave new world of Productive Americans go into the sunlight to grow again and thrive. History repeats, as Socialist leaders do all they can to protect themselves, while their perceived useful idiots go out and take all the risks and the casualties in a war that finds Democrat House Members in full retreat.
I won’t waste any tears on Nancy and her nasty little Congressional playmates in the Demmunist Party, as they HIDE in their palatial homes and SNIPE at Pres. Trump who is actually doing the job we paid him to do, which is more than you can say for ANY of them!. She has her pair of $24,000 refrigerators stuffed full of $12 a pint gourmet ice cream to sustain her, after all. You won’t see NASTY NANCY standing in line at any of those food banks any time soon!
IF THEY refuse to show up to their work, DO NOT PAY THEM. SImple as that.
Yes and these are the people that send us to war. Make sure the young that go cannot appreciate a beer in their home state. I would not follow these people to war. Frag their butts.
COMMENT I think that we should send our representatives to represent us to nay and ALL wars they vote for!
I’d love to send them. BUT IF you also were deployed with them, would ANY of you trust they’d have your back?!
the american politician has long forgot who they work for.
we need a movement at grass root level to go and show these idiots who they work for in washington .d.c.
No, we need to REMOVE ALL THEIR pay.. AND freeze everyone of their bank accounts..
Please, oh please call the Congress back into session…you will be safe from the virus….we PROMISE! ….and unlike the Congress we always keep our promises.
Hmmm just wondering how fast they would get back to work if they knew their check was being canceled because of it!
Just wait, this summer when some Americans have forgotten the covid19 tragedy, as well as the 911 tragedy. Some Americans have very bad memories. While Trump and most REAL patriots are calling them (The Democratic Party) the do nothing party. They will come back to work and without blinking an eye they will vote themselves a new pay increase. Think not? I’d love it if Trump says no. While a large number of people were asked to take a paycut for 90 days they (like my son in law–an orthopedic surgeon) will think that they deserve it. If I was Trump, I’d love to find a way to make them reimburse ALL Americans for the millions they’ve wasted trying to bring him down. That’s not enough when found guilty, they should lose ALL benefits as well. SAY NO TO DEM PAY INCREASE.
How can people like Pelosi make 174k a year and after doing nothing for the 31 years she’s been in office, she’s now worth over 190 million?
Can any democrat give just one example of what she’s done for her district?
IIRC< they already PUSHED into one of those relief bills, a pay rise for themselves…
Congress is afraid to return to DC? As a citizen I would too but this us their job to support the nation and Constitution.
The bars and liquor stores must be shut down in DC so they stay home near their well stocked liquor cabinets. Nancy Piglosi is drunk IMO everytime she is on camera
So it’s easier to stumble around at home.
Trump is the hero in this mess. The Demorats abandon ship.
Make China Pay!
Is Pelosi and Hoyer finally facing the fact that the stockperson at the local grocery store is more essential than they are? Arrogant, worthless, and to entitled to do the job they were hired to do, a job that allows them the luxury to buy kitchen appliances worth more than most Americans cars.
add to that darby… these awful, evil, elitist… “people”… think and demand that us little people of the kingdom should give praise and thanks for their long service to the country! … how vomitable.
I doubt that many of them, even know how to OPERATE those expensive appliances.
They all probably have at home chefs to do their cooking.
RESIGN!
When half the people who voted you into office, and many if not most of those who serve under you have already cratered their own immunity systems in AIDS and other blood born pathogen injections more dangerous to the human body than anything Trump has suggested being injected,,,, staying locked down among the walking dead is your only option. Who knows what darkness lurks in the hearts minds of Socialist men, and within the debilitated blood streams and under the skirts of Pelosi and her Squads of sin liberated women. The shadow knows, and his name might just be Joe Biden who on many occasions has fingered it out, which has necessitated his figuring it out, that it is best to remain in his basement with the rest of the social misfits and rebels of safe human conduct that even in normal times puts THE PEOPLE and themselves at risk.
Owl. Better yet. Take a nice dive into the nearest active volcano!
They should stop drawing a paycheck if they don’t return to work.
I mean Congress could skype or something right? Surely there’s a way for them to legislate from home. They can vote on bills electronically.
No? Not secure? Then stop trying to make it so voters can vote electronically.
Dr Gadget, when you’re talking about Congress, “returning to work” is, at best, a RELATIVE term! You have to have DONE something in the FIRST place to be able to “return” to it!
LOL.. So true. Hell i doubt even 10% of them ever have worked a PROPER day in their life.
Don’t let them Skype or zoom…. Make them adjourn.. Then Trump can get something done….
Yea, like JUDGE appointments!
Must be nice to not work and still get paid–AND dictate your own work timeline.
I guess they’re waiting for COVID to TOTALLY disappear (which will NEVER happen!) before they’ll go back to DC.
Congress SHOULDN’T be getting paid during this pandemic if they’re not working–it conveys a bad impression.
washington itself has been conveying a “bad impression” for decades now
Nancy and her NASTY little Demmunist playmates in Congress don’t care what “impression” their behavior creates in the minds of the American people. As far as THEY are concerned, THEY are ROYALTY, and we are all mere SUBJECTS who were put on earth for THEM to tax/fleece, and to gratify their every WHIM. How many “average Americans” live in a multi-MILLION-DOLLAR mansion complete with a pair of $24,000-apiece refrigerators stuffed full of $12 a pint gourmet ice cream to comfort and sustain them through this pandemic?
THIS is the political “ruling class” we have allowed to LORD IT OVER US for decades. It’s time Nancy Antoinette be held to account for her INDIFFERENCE to the welfare of those who pay her salary. As I recall, the LAST person to publicly express their indifference to the masses in so TONE DEAF a fashion LOST HER HEAD for it. Maybe it’s time to revive that guillotine!
Teabag, that’s something i’ve been saying for years. TIME TO START putting their heads all on the chopping block.
Perhaps if they weren’t all frail, weak, 80 year old pansies!
Or 300 lb. gluttons like No Neck Nadler. Since about 1 in 13 Black or African-American babies is born with sickle cell trait leaving them prime candidates for the ventilators, Pelosi stands to lose about 12% of her house constituency, or her perceived useful idiots that keep her in power when they contract the virus. Of the 22 freshman representatives who are nonwhite, just one is a Republican.
What is stopping the Republicans from showing up?
So far the Senate is planning to show up on Monday. But, the House won’t be in session since it’s run by Democrats.
It would be really cool if all the House Republicans did show up and they held a mock session with lots of photographers.
AND still vote things in, that NEED to be done. Just say “Well, the dems didn’t show up, so we had a qurorum of who DID, and voted these things in!
What’s stopping the Republicans from showing up is that they’re no more than the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the CPUSA aka DemoKrat Partei, who collectively haven’t a complete pair of cojones, but do have wishbones where their backbones should be.
This is SOOOO true, Nealstar, that I’d give you TEN stars for saying it, if I could!
Somewhere in the bowels of the Constitution or congressional rules, there has got to be a way to vote when congress people play hooky.
If not, then the strategy could always be “I’m not there, so you can’t vote!”
We need our real Republicans to get smart and vicious. Take the gloves off!
Could we take over under civil disobedience?
And if not, DJG. There damn well SHOULD be some such rule.
Many are there. Republicans have not said they were not coming back. Nancy COULD call them back, but NANCY once again, has decided to hold up the WORK OF CONGRESS. What a bunch of hypocrites! Worthless Nancy Pelosi!!
Well, for one thing, the DEMOCRATS are in the majority int he House–more’s the pity–and without a “quorom” of members present, the Republicans can’t do anything, even if they DID show up.
Then maybe the rules for what counts as a quroum need to get changed.
Fire these true ***’s! They have a job, a job well beyond their intellect and merit for most, part the Dems. If they don’t work they should be fired!
For full disclosure, I hate the Democrats! I find them disgusting anti-American for the most part.
Just take a look at the faces that represent the conniving Demmunist majority in Congress: NASTY Nancy, MAD Maxine Waters, Schiff-for-Brains, AOC and her America-hating, half-Muslim SQUAD . . . what ELSE do you expect from this SLIMY. America-hating BUNCH? On top of that, they believe that THEY are our rules, and we mere subjects, to be taxed/fleeced and exploited at their whim.
Boo hoo hoo. Child care would be a problem. They are so out of touch with their constituents it’s ridiculous.
Since the members of both the House and Senate work for WE the PEOPLE, then we should lock the doors to the House and Senate and only allow Republicans in. Also, if the members of Congress don’t want to work, we should and MUST withhold their pay and benefits, ENOUGH is enough of their and disrespect and disdain for the people who put their sorry pompous butts in office.
NOT just withhold all pay and benefits, but use LEGAL means to SEIZE ALL PAY they’ve already received…
The cretin party is afraid that they may have to face America before they can get all their lies and misinformation ready for their friends in the lamestream media and because they are still covering up their thirst for power instead of a sense of duty towards the American people. Nancy is looking for an extra copy of the Constitution to rip up and Chuckie is still in munchkin land looking for his brain. Bernie is still walking the Commie red brick road.
If they do not show up for work,, either they get no pay, or they loose their job, just like everybody else. Their choice.
THAT is certainly how it SHOULD BE..
BUT like with everything else, damn near. WHAT IS applicable, legally, to We the people, seem to NEVER apply to these cretins.
I’m sick and tried of the Democrats acting as if we own them something. They have not done anything in the last 3 years t help the american people but have work very hard t get rid of Trump and help the illegals. We have just witness what Socialism is by some of the Governor’s . And that is just the beginning if the Democrats get what they want. We need to call all the Democrats and tell them to start working for the american people and not for themselves.
The conniving Demmunists must be ECSTATIC at the length of “bread-lines” all over the country at the food banks–isn’t that a SOCIALIST DREAM? It’s where ALL those “COMMUNIST paradises” always end up, isn’t it? By whipping up panic and conniving to PROLONG shut-downs and other economically disastrous aspects of the CoVid-19 “pandemic,” they are slowly, but surely “fundamentally transforming” us into VENEZUELA. Crushing debt and RAMPANT inflation are sure to be more “side-effects” of this pandemic that will help further that transformation. As I said, they must be ECSTATIC. I’m surprised they’re not out dancing in the streets in OPEN celebration at this unexpected GIFT to their America-hating TOXIC “party!”
Cox. This is why i’d LOVE for the infinity stones to be real, so i could SNAP THEM (and all their brainless voters) OUT OF existence….
Just Imagine how much better off, as a world we’d be, if ALL OF THESE communists, and depraved cretins, ceased to exist.
They will return once the bill to steal from the taxpayers is ready. They should not get paid if they won’t work. We need to get rid of all theses dirtbags and create a new government with real checks and balances. Get people back to work. Some people will get sick. It happens every year. COVID-19 has become a political tool and it is about time we recognize it. Stop paying people to sit at home. Open schools, daycare and businesses. The business of America is business.
At this point in our history, not collectively resigning, may be more dangerous, at least to their already tarnished reputations and certainly, their “legacies”.
WHAT LEGACY?
That of being the WORST bunch of traitors, to ever have existed?
It is We the People who are in danger when the DemRats come to Washington.
The Senate, controlled by Republicans, is returning on Monday, using CDC precautions. This won’t bode well for the Dems. They intend to make the next Stim pkg, outside the chamber, then try to ram it thru with perks and blame it on the Republicans for not approving the pork.
No more stimulus packages. Open up the country safely and let’s get our country rolling again. We can’t keep printing worthless paper until our dollar will be worthless. Do we really want to be like Venezuela???
AND NO BAILOUTS of states/cities, controlled by dems. ESPECIALLY THOSE with sanctuary cities…
What,they think that ASSASSINS are waiting for them for what they have done to the Country….
For all the traitorous and seditious, crapolium they’ve perpetrated, over the past many decades, Perhaps they SHOULD have assassins after them all..
The democrats are such a rotten, sorry, hate mongering, dung flinging, money wasting, lying, corrupt *** crowd. A rattlesnake has more virtue than the democrats in congress and government.
Pacifino, a rattlesnake is just an animal who does what it does out of instinct and conditioning. The conniving DEMMUNISTS, on the other hand, are sentient beings who CHOOSE to be evil and DO evil at every opportunity, which makes them FAR LOWER than a rattlesnake, or any OTHER creepy-crawly, VENOMOUS vermin THING.
And they are hiding behind their attending physician’s advice not to return as yet because it will be dangerous for them! What do we care if they catch the virus. THEY ARE NOT INDISPENSABLE THEY CAN JUST BE AS EASILY REPLACED. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO CULL THEM DOWN!!
Absentee Ballot would be Electronic, they want mail in so they can stuff the ballot M
They are afraid of being tarred, feathered, and ran out of town! By not working they are pushing vote by mail rather than absentee ballots, and now guaranteed income…..these communist need to get the Hell out of the USA !
What is amazing, Jmichael270, is that the conniving Demmunists obviously believe the Communist DIcTATOR form of government is FAR superior to what we have–since they are working CONTINUALLY to SADDLE us with that form of government–and yet, they choose to live HERE, in this “evil capitalist country,” instead of moving to Venezuela, or some OTHER “Communist paradise!” Go figure . . .
ANY who refuse to go willingly, should be FORCED TO go, at the tip of spears.
They are doing this to spite Trump who had been telling them to return to work for us the people. Talking about being passive aggressive.
Well, as I have said before and will say again,THEY ARE ALL CROOKS, NO EXCEPTIONS!! And that is all of them, both sides of the house and Senate.
Now, now, 35Vtail. They’re probably not ALL crooks. There MAY be one or two who are honest . . . MAYBE even three . . .
Nancy, stay home and eat your ice cream. You flaming idiot.
Why not? After 3 1/2 years trying to tar & feather Mr Trump (Mueller report, impeachment circus); why go to work now. They ought to return their compensation for the last 3+ years.
If their pay depending on what useful work they had performed, dleiland, they should return it from a LOT farther back than the last 3+ years! Many of them have been in Congress for DECADES–and not done a SINGLE useful thing in all that time, except feather their OWN financial nests and suck up to whatever special interest lobbyist was dispensing the biggest “campaign contributions” to keep getting their SORRY FANNIES re-elected, year after year!
AND if they really earned what they were ‘worth’, THEY WOULD MAKE FAR less than most do, who earn minimum wage!
AND they would certainly not be getting Automatic pay rises, just for being Present.
I have an idea they are adjusting their diabolical plans for America. I expect more and more of this prior to the November election.
They have to consult their AOC for their socialist ideas.