The lazy bums in the Senate will have to wait two more weeks for their August “recess.” Like children who get “recess” at school, the Senate is forced to stay after school and work on health care and tax reform. Boo hoo.
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The Senate will delay the start of its annual August recess to give lawmakers more time to work on “important legislative issues” and winnow the backlog of President Trump’s pending nominations, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.
“In order to provide more time to complete action on important legislative items and process nominees that have been stalled by a lack of cooperation from our friends across the aisle, the Senate will delay the start of the August recess until the third week of August,” he said in a statement.
The Kentucky senator and leader of the Republican-controlled Senate has been under increasing pressure, most recently from Trump, to either cancel or shorten the month-long recess as he struggles to get an ObamaCare replacement bill passed in the chamber.
However, McConnell on Tuesday put some of the blame on Democrats for him having to cut short the recess by roughly three weeks. Aside from the health care bill complications, McConnell said Democrats’ “lack of cooperation” has stalled the process of considering nominees.