Wait a minute! Didn’t Pelosi promise that she was going to make her new Congress work full five day work-weeks back in January? What happened to that?
“Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501342_pf.html
Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week