▲ 384 ▼ House GOP memo blasts Whitmer’s paid family leave proposal as ‘summer break for adults’ (michiganadvance.com) submitted 3 years ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments Just a reminder that Republicans are just horrible people.
[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 55 points 3 years ago (1 child) remind me again how much vacation congress gets? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 28 points 3 years ago* (3 children) You don't get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It's a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Wrench@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) And they don't even have to bother reading the bills they vote on. They have staffers summarize them for them, and then blame their staffers if they don't know the details of a bill when called out on their vote permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 3 years ago Staffers? Did you mean sponsors? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 years ago damn shame how we done them permalink fedilink source parent [–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 years ago Whatever you do don’t link a compilation video of all the members of congress sleeping on the job. That would be hugely inappropriate and counter to the message they would prefer get sent out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 28 points 3 years ago* (3 children) You don't get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It's a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Wrench@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) And they don't even have to bother reading the bills they vote on. They have staffers summarize them for them, and then blame their staffers if they don't know the details of a bill when called out on their vote permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 3 years ago Staffers? Did you mean sponsors? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 years ago damn shame how we done them permalink fedilink source parent [–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 years ago Whatever you do don’t link a compilation video of all the members of congress sleeping on the job. That would be hugely inappropriate and counter to the message they would prefer get sent out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) And they don't even have to bother reading the bills they vote on. They have staffers summarize them for them, and then blame their staffers if they don't know the details of a bill when called out on their vote permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 3 years ago Staffers? Did you mean sponsors? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 3 years ago Staffers? Did you mean sponsors? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 years ago damn shame how we done them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 years ago Whatever you do don’t link a compilation video of all the members of congress sleeping on the job. That would be hugely inappropriate and counter to the message they would prefer get sent out. permalink fedilink source parent