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The insouciance with which Congress has decided “yes, this is the moment to recess for a month” with no ability to work remotely just drives home the hubris that afflicts our *entire* national leadership — not just the White House. https://twitter.com/LizSly/status/1242983016915513346
Hope is not a plan, even in the best of times. With Trump as president, to hope for the best for a month is absolute folly.
Looks crazy to read it — but yep, this is what’s happening. https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1243147013102895106
For heaven’s sake, what a needless and blinkered view. https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1244707489410506753
Let’s not "waste time" talking about how to keep the federal ability to make laws operative during a pandemic. That's quite some take. https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1244712869289242625
Not gonna soft-pedal this: I’m genuinely livid that congressional leaders, D and R alike, decided that now was the time let Congress out for a month without provisions made for remote voting. https://twitter.com/nancyscola/status/1244978761688326145
The spectacle of the people entrusted to oversee the executive branch response saying “let’s protect ourselves & go home, work can wait” — while essential workers risk themselves at hospitals and keeping critical services running — is gross. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/03/25/coronavirus-puts-retail-other-workers-out-front-but-they-safe/2906358001/
It’s a response that mimics the class divide named by this story: people with means sheltering in seclusion, with others at “the front lines of the economy, stretched to the limit by the demands of work and parenting, if there is even work to be had." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/economy/coronavirus-inequality.html
If it looks out of touch to *me* — and I’m forgiving of the stresses public officials have to balance — I can’t imagine how it looks to people more exposed to the economic effects of this crisis.
Members of Congress have high net worths, relative to most Americans. But Congress has essential work to do as the nation endures and recovers from the pandemic.
It should be acting more like it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/25/richest-members-of-congress-by-net-worth/40290533/
It should be acting more like it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/25/richest-members-of-congress-by-net-worth/40290533/
Another example of the class divide mentioned above: 
If the members of Congress are going to stay at home — as we all should, for health reasons — like people in other professions where graduate degrees are common, they can at least make _some_ effort to work, too. https://twitter.com/DrewLinzer/status/1245039367174799360
If the members of Congress are going to stay at home — as we all should, for health reasons — like people in other professions where graduate degrees are common, they can at least make _some_ effort to work, too. https://twitter.com/DrewLinzer/status/1245039367174799360
Yep.
Can’t do oversight without a vote to proceed with it — and the House cannot vote right now because House leadership has refused to make any provision for it.
An observer less charitable than me could call this negligence. https://twitter.com/danielschuman/status/1245752910576848897
Can’t do oversight without a vote to proceed with it — and the House cannot vote right now because House leadership has refused to make any provision for it.
An observer less charitable than me could call this negligence. https://twitter.com/danielschuman/status/1245752910576848897
100 percent correct. https://twitter.com/murshedz/status/1246555097057771520
“Absent an emergency, the House is not expected to meet prior to Monday, May 4, 2020,” this announcement reads.
Excuse me: if not an emergency, what … is this situation, exactly?
Excuse me: if not an emergency, what … is this situation, exactly?
(Meant to thread this here.) https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/1249799496562806786
Congress needs to be able to work remotely in a crisis. That fact should be obvious. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1250188730503135232
“House lawmakers said they are perplexed that three months after federal authorities confirmed the first covid-19 case in the United States, Capitol Hill remains in a state of suspended animation.”
I’m with House lawmakers on this; I’m perplexed, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/were-basically-ill-prepared-hobbled-house-majority-frets-about-its-effectiveness-amid-pandemic/2020/04/25/1b3c1c5e-85b7-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html
I’m with House lawmakers on this; I’m perplexed, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/were-basically-ill-prepared-hobbled-house-majority-frets-about-its-effectiveness-amid-pandemic/2020/04/25/1b3c1c5e-85b7-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html
