Congress goes on vacation, leaving major work undone

WASHINGTON, February 18, 2013 — Congress headed out of Washington on Friday for a ten-day vacation, leaving the American people teetering at the brink of still another potentially catastrophic financial crisis, the sequester. When was the last time you walked out of your job for 10 days, leaving a pile of work on your desk, that if not done could wreck the company? Yet our Congress, under the Republican leadership of Ohio Rep. John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, saw fit to adjourn Congress and hightail it home or to the ski slopes or on whatever junket Congress decided to take for ten days. Democratic House members protested for most of last week not to shutter the House for a...