(CNN) – With a stacked legislative agenda to pass before the end of the year, the latest battle in the Senate centers on when members will head home to their districts to celebrate Christmas.
After Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, left the door open to keeping the Senate in session through the holiday, Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl accused him of "disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians."
"It is impossible to do all of the things that the majority leader laid out without doing - frankly, without disrespecting the institution and without disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians and the families of all of the Senate, not just the senators themselves but all of the staff," Kyl said Tuesday.
Reid took to the Senate floor to respond, calling comments by Kyl and Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint - who threatened to delay Senate votes - "sanctimonious lectures."
"Yet some of my Republican colleagues have the nerve to whine about having to stay in action to do the work that the American people pay us to do," Reid said. "We could work, as most Americans do, during the holidays. Perhaps Senators Kyl and DeMint have been in Washington too long."
Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune criticized Democrats for their handling of the timeline.
"Staying here using the Christmas holiday as a backdrop I think makes the Democrat leadership in the United States Senate look incompetent," Thune said Wednesday.
DeMint also took a jab at Democrats.
"I have no problem working every day until Christmas and beyond to stop this rampage of spending and bad policy, what I object to is Democrats trying to rush through an agenda voters rejected and hoping that Americans are too busy with the holidays to notice," DeMint said in a statement.
The Senate overwhelmingly passed the $858 billion tax cut package Wednesday, but has yet to consider the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States.
Hoping for more time to debate the treaty, Republicans are attempting to stall the vote until January when the new Congress is sworn in, but Democrats want to pass the legislation before they break for recess.
Last year the Senate remained in session until Christmas, voting on the health care bill December 24.
–CNN's Virginia Nicolaidis, Dana Bash and Ted Barrett contributed to this report
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If there had not been 89 fillibusters conducted by the republicans, perhaps more would have been accomplished.
When a political party does everything they can to block, defeat all policies that come along, then has the nerve
to complain about time constraints, they once again prove how hypocritical they are.
Ky;e has been blocking the imperative START treaty, and, DeMint tries to block everything that comes along.
They are a sad, dispicable, embarressing example of what some politicians have become.
If the Repubs hadn't stalled for all these months, they would be done by now. Don't blame Harry Reid for your own, obstructionist behavior, guys, and stop the whinning. We, the American taxpayers, pay you to our work, not sit around and complain. As Nike says, JUST DO IT!
our soldiers aren't coming home for Christmas, legislators ought stay until the the job is done also, undoubtedly most days are like for you, be patriotic, as you claim
Ho Ho.. Santa Claus.. Republicans.!. You got the money to the richest 1% again..?.. Santa delivers on Christmas ...you should know that.. Now get down to business and help us Americans.. in the lower income brackets.. Or are we turning to a Banana Republic of the Rich 1% who are holding Trillions in money and hiring no one at all..merry Christmas!
You go, Aharry!
Make those deadbeat repubs actually get some work done!
I serves them right to be late for Christmas.
Why would Kyl think that Pelosi and Reid would give a crap about Christmas, you know it is all about the "word". Progressive liberal elite do not believe in God, they cannot intellectually explain his existence therefore he is a myth for the unintelligent non-Harvard educated gun toters, they see it simply a tool for control of the masses...
If the democrat liberals hadn't screwed around trying to steal our money in the Obozocare bill, this stuff that actually creates jobs and helps the economy could already be done and the dems could be working on their wet dream stuff, currying votes from the nooks and crannies of society and the non-effective, security weakining START treaty instead of important things. But it was more important, and continues to be more important to them to steal our money, imagine, you pay taxes on your income and investment several times, then they want to tax it again when you die. Vultures, unholy vultures, picking the bones of the dead and their grieving families so the dope smokers can avoid work and watch Oprah.
Exactly! Working on Christmas is blasphemy!
Bring ALL the troops home before Christmas.
Let the structure fires burn themselves out.
Criminals- have a field day.
Heart attack? Sorry! Can it wait 'til Monday?
How's that filibustering working out for you now GOP Senators?
Guess you should've gotten the people's business done earlier instead of grandstanding for the wealthy, huh?
HA!
If the Republicans would have gotten off their hands eariler in the year there would not be this many bill to vote on. If they want to go home let them. 51 is a majority.
Harry Reid is a greedy ole sole.
Whine whine ... Do your jobs: Kyle, DeMint and Thune!
How about the disrespect you show towards the American people. You threaten to fillibuster the unemployed's lifeline so you could help out your rich friends. Most Republicans aren't really Christian anyway – just look at the way they behave.
STFU Senators and get to work! You deadbeats have too much vacation time and need to spend more time at work! Talking about you, rethuglicans!
Repubs, don't want to work during the holidays...aww poor babies. I see that you guys are completely out of touch with reality. 1. People are suffering over christmas and past recent holidays as well so you staying to me means nothing 2. Work needs to be done and thats what "the people" elected you for and it's not getting done in the given time so do what normal people do and stay if you have to till it gets done 3. Stop complaining about doing your job unless you do not want it anymore 4. Congress has recesses almost every other month they you guys voted on to benefit yourselves so i don't care how long you imbicles need to stay. DO YOUR JOBS!!! oh to the new repub congress WHERE ARE ALL THE JOBS!!!!!!!!
The GOP are the ones who delayed ALL bills from consideration. This is just a stall tactic by the GOP. The START treaty is important and needs to be considered. Evem former GOP heavyweights foreign policy makers have said so. So why whine about it. Look, I have to work until Christmas, I don't mind our lawmakers who make 3 times as much as do working. They are so used to perks, it kills them to be an ordinary working American from time to time and work through the holidays like we do.........................
Do the work your paid to do. it doesnt disrespect the holiday if your off by noon on Christmas Eve. Most Americans work right up to Christmas and then return the following Monday. If Republicans believe I am disrespecting Christmas because i am a working stiff, then forget them.
Earn your money, Kyl. A lot of us have had to work thru holidays in our lives. EARN YOUR MONEY, DO YOUR JOB INSTEAD OF WASTING MONEY AND TIME WHINING ALL THE TIME.
stufit, it is beyond me that anyone can blame the Democrats for the despicable behavior of the Republicans the last two years. 89 filibusters and a determination to black any effective legislation except their hand out to the rich. You call the Dems vultures. I call them defenders of the middle class.
89 fillibusters? Serves the republicans right. Give em hell, Harry.
The Dems know, they have the best chance to pass legislation now, and that will drop dramatically, in January, when the house shifts to GOP control.
I respect a man or woman who does the job he or she was hired to do until the last minute before they go off on a holiday and people like Senator Kyl do not fit the bill.
Reid hit the nail on the head – "sanctimonious lectures."
Thanks Kyl. Someone had to say it so that everyone could hear just how stupid, absurdist, petty, irrational and self-serving it really sounds.
Hey, 99% of the country who still have a job and have to work on the Monday following Xmas weekend...what do you think YOUR boss would say if you went to him/her and said "You know, you're disrespecting the most holy of Krischun Nashun holies by making me come to work on the Monday following Xmas weekend...it's sacrilege and I won't tolerate it!" Hmmm?
Howss all that time wasted on filibusters fittin' into your schedule now?
The increase of world hatred for the United Statees is directionally proportional to the increase of the influence Republiicans have in American politics.
Let the Repub bigots go home, then repeal DADT. The country wants it repealed.
As a cook at Boyne Mountain Resort I will not have a day off untill late January. Would it kill these men and women to work like everybody else in this country?
Work needs to be done. This happens every year. You refuse to work together, so you need to work during holidays. Reap what you sew Senators Lyle and DeMint. And as a Christian, you should know it's not the holiest day, Easter is. And if you take the Christian holidays, why bother working on the holidays of other religions– INCLUDING ISLAMIC holidays. Be fair and consistent. There is a separation of church and state after all.
I want them all to stay in session until they've voted on all the proposals under consideration. Many Americans work over Christmas, including soldiers.
Did the Dems forget what the people voted for? We voted you out in an overwhelming majority. To stay in session and use the lame duck to push the policies the majority of Americans do not want is absolutely pathetic. You have been in control for too long and we the people do NOT want you making decisions for us anymore. Did you not get the memo? Leave for Christmas, and come January, the people will once again have a voice.
Sen. Kyl has the audacity to complain when he is immorally blocking our national security!
If Sen. Kyl and others want to go home, they need to finish the work our tax dollars pay the senators to do ASAP and allow for a reasonable vote on START and other legislation supported by the majority of Americans (DADT Repeal, 9/11 Responders Bill, and Defense Authorization).
"If the Republicans would have gotten off their hands eariler in the year there would not be this many bill to vote on"
Did you not get the memo? They are still firmly sitting on their thumbs, which is a pretty neat-o trick since they all apparently also have their heads in their...
Don't like the work hours? Quit, find another job.
"89 filibusters by the Republicans"? Geez, the typical lib crowd that gravitates to CNN is pathetic! Fact is the Dimwits still have a majority in both houses of Congress and a rubber-stamp President for their taxpayer-ripoff agenda! This is why they have allowed all this legislation to build-up so they can try to jam it through during the holidays. This SHAME Duck Congress needs to be terminated NOW!
Welcome to the real world! Millions of Americans will be working on Christmas including our troops. It's shameful that Republicans did everything they could to block legislation and now they want to go home without finishing their jobs. It's time they start earning their paychecks including those generous tax breaks.
atta boy harry keep them there until new year if you have to,they like to play games well show them that you can play also.
Remember what the worst US President (Wilson) and his cronies did to us in 1913 in the dark of night.?
Good for Reid. Tell that clown Kyl to take gas. If it were a Republican controlled Senate and they had agenda items to finish, he sure would sing a different tune.
Republicans disrespect Christian values all year - punishing the poor & enriching the rich - and then have the gall to whine about working on Christmas? Try being a year-round Christian, instead of a "CEO Christian." (***Christmas and Easter Only.)
Bad idea. There was another time the House worked at Christmas time, it was 1913, and resulted in creation of the Federal Reserve.
Hey, you guys are on salary; you work 'till the job is done. You want to hose around playing political games all year? Fine, you work through the holidays. The GOP says nothing gets considered until they're happy with the tax cut for the rich (it's all they're interested in). In that case, you have to stay in DC in case the tax bill gets settled, then work 'round the clock to finish everything you've put off.
If I had an employee obstructing work and throwing tantrums about working, I'd fire them in a heartbeat. Too bad we don't have yearly elections. I say work until they pass Dream, Start, and DADT!
I hate to inform Kyl, DeMint, and the other Republicans... but Christmas is not that important of a Christian holiday.
In case any of you forgot, the important part of the story is not the birth, but the death (in fact, if you actually read the Bible as opposed to having people tell you what's in it, you might find the gospels can't agree on most details about the birth).
So, to Kyl, DeMint, and the other Republicans: Grow up and stop using your faith as a crutch. It's disgusting.
This is more of the typical hate politics of the Democrats. First they hate the middle class by destroying jobs. Then they hate the poor by increasing food costs and cutting benefits. Then they blame it on the GOP for opposing them. Clearly the Dems only respect the ultrarich who they benefit most.
How arrogant! Thousands of soldiers overseas would like to spend their Christmas at home as well. Heck, I ony get Christmas Eve and Christmas day off. Most working people have to return to work the next business day after Christmas. Why do you think you should be any different.
You idiots put yourselves in this position and I think you should all have to stay and work until the work is done. Everyday spent putting the Country on hold by filabustering, grandstanding or delaying a vote should be a day taken from your vacation time. You have a job to do. Now do it or resign. Then you can spend all the time you want at home . . .
Keep the Republicans in the Senate until they get their legislative work complete! Since when it is okay for them to just say "NO" and go home!!!!!
"Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl accused him of "disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians."
So, if it is disrespecting one of the two holiest holidays for Christians to make the Senate stay over the holidays, then why isn't Sen. Kyl and the other Republican senators yelling with a loud voice about how businesses are making their employees work ON Christmas itself, let alone not closing up their companies for a week or more during this season? Don't tell me "well, that is the private sector and business owners can do what they feel best serves their personal interests." I counter with, well Senators, you are OUR employees and WE THE PEOPLE demand that you WORK over the holidays just like we do. Who says that YOU deserve to be off for week/weeks or even Christmas day itself when there is work to be done and yet you DEMAND the working class people to work on Christmas day and the week following? Who cares if you can't get everything done, one or two things done is better than NOTHING DONE!!!!
Stop whining and WORK for a change. If you don't like how WE THE PEOPLE want you to work over the holidays, then you can stop running for re-election or better yet you can QUIT and let us put in someone who really does want a job and WORK!!!!!
Way to go Senator Reid. I have to work why don't they? Or are they not "hard working Americans"?
Peace
Hey DeMint, ever hear of separation of church and state. The Constitution doesn't say you get Christmas or even week-ends off. You guys screwed around all year posturing for the right-wingers so live with it. Around the clock, 24/7 until January 4th and finally earn that money you are being paid. Or admit that you really don't care about the country and go home (we already know you don't care).
I completely agree with Harry Reid!!! These idiot Republicans made sure to get this Tax bill through on their time and now they are whining about should they work through Christmas!!! Hell yeah Harry Reid work through Christmas and the holidays. These Republicans shouldn't get any say since they rammed this stupid bill through. Republicans just SHUT UP, quit your WHINING and if you don't want to work then GET OUT and QUIT!!!
Reality....Did the Dems forget what the people voted for? We voted you out in an overwhelming majority. To stay in session and use the lame duck to push the policies the majority of Americans do not want
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Really........last time I checked over 70% of Americans want DADT repealed, A bunch of Repubs including former Preident HW Bush support the START treaty...........The President is more popular now than the REPUBS and that's after the election unlike Clinton & GW Bush after they lost seats in the mid-term.........So get some facts........Reality!!!!!!!!!!!
OK. I love the ones here who say that American People voted overwhelmingly against the items that the Senate is trying to pass. Let's see – DADT repeal favored by 70% of Americans and Military. Start Treaty strongly supported by 5 very senior members of the Republican Party. Dream Act overwhelmingly supported across both parties. Funding our military (Defense Act) – why would you deny our troops what they need. Fact is rebubs blocked major legislation the pat 2 ears – FACT!!! Another fact – the vast majority of working Americans will get only two days off before the New Year. Sorry – but we elected you to do business. You answer to us who elected you and now get to work!!!
Come on Kyl & deMint, who do you think you're talking to? Preach to your tea-bag choir about the sanctity of Christmas on your own time; while you're on taxpayer time your job is to legislate! The START treaty is bigger than you or your corporate handlers!
Bill wrote:
"Good for Reid. Tell that clown Kyl to take gas. If it were a Republican controlled Senate and they had agenda items to finish, he sure would sing a different tune.".
If it were a Republican controlled Senate, we would not have wasted 2 years on a fatally flawed Obamacare, $1 trillion on a porkulus package that did nothing, 90 days on gays in the milltary.
We would have an economy growing and unemployment heading down.
As it is, America lost 2 years with the Obama, Pelosi, Reid Left Fringe agenda.
Millions of people work during the holiday, why can't congress or are they so special they feel they are above the people that they should have the time off. They just had several weeks off to campaign and also time off for summer much more than the people who elect them into office.
So what... they don't have to work for us based on a religious holiday? How's that work?
Wait you don't want to work on Chris-tmas? What about the millions of people whose benefits have run out, who thanks to you have no jobs nor any money coming in. I wonder how they would feel about working through the Holiday? How about you don't work and donate your income to those who don't have any. Or better yet, let the unemployed fill in for you over vacation, I'm sure they could get things done. J-esus would care more about the state of the people than a false sense of worship on the approximate date of his birth. He sacrificed his life for the protection of us and yet some of you are willing to sacrifice the lives of many so that you can sit around the fireplace with your families. Please call it simply the Holidays and not Chris-tmas because what many stand for is in direct opposition of what C-hrist was born, lived and died for.
Just my humble opinion,
Good for Harry Reid – nail those santimonious windbags – they phony "christians". If clowns like Kyl hadn't screwed around and wasted so much time they'd be out of town by now. They have no one to blame but themselves. Out here in "real America", if we're lucky enough to still be working, we're working up to the holiday and then directly thereafter – welcome to our world!
Make them stay in session until our soldiers come home!
So, are these the same Christian Republicans that were gonna let everything die on the vine until they got their tax cuts for the riches people...
It just amazes me some of the things these people on here say... But what really amazes is how so many people on here are taking a shot at the Democrats/Harry Reid over this... I look at it this way, supposedly "The People" spoke in the last election that they (the people) wanted things differently... Now you have a Democrat wanting to stay and finish the job the people elected and pay them to do and the republicans are the ones not wanting to do it, yet the Dems are getting bashed for it... It is no wonder the Republican party gets away with so much and still gets reelected in, they have such foolish sheeple supporting them...
The unemployed can’t stop being unemployed just because it’s Christmas. The homeless, the uninsured, those in need… they can’t suddenly go home for the holidays.
"Yet some of my Republican colleagues have the nerve to whine about having to stay in action to do the work that the American people pay us to do," Reid said. "We could work, as most Americans do, during the holidays. Perhaps Senators Kyl and DeMint have been in Washington too long."
For once, I agree wholeheartedly with Reid. Stop your kvetching and get working. If you want to get the work done by the holiday, then stop whining and get the work done.
"Staying here using the Christmas holiday as a backdrop I think makes the Democrat leadership in the United States Senate look incompetent," Thune said Wednesday.
Yeah, no. The SENATE looks incompetent all on their own. Republican, Democrat – that doesn’t matter. The fact these adult children seem only to be capable of schoolyard bullying and in-house fighting rather than actually doing what they are supposed to do FOR the American people makes them look incompetent.
"Bob in PA
Remember what the worst US President (Wilson) and his cronies did to us in 1913 in the dark of night.?"
You have a first hand account of what happened in 1913? If so, you must be well into your hundreds.
Kyl using Christianity once again as a blunt weapon truly shows just how bankrupt and soulless that clown is.
How many of these whiny Senators voted to send our troops to fight in Iraq and abroad. These brave men and women aren't going to be able to see spend Christmas with their loved ones.
As for the person calling themselves Reality. This is the Senate, not the house. The Dems still have control. Whiner. If it were the opposite you would be doing a 180.
"I have no problem working every day until Christmas and beyond to stop this rampage of spending and bad policy, what I object to is Democrats trying to rush through an agenda voters rejected and hoping that Americans are too busy with the holidays to notice," DeMint said in a statement.
Okay – that that's ONE republican in favor of staying as long as it takes. Or is that just a soundbyte to puff his chest with?
Filibuster: That should solve all the problems.....unless it lasts till Christmas.
Since the Republicans have yet to break a legislative sweat for the past two years (how much effort does it take to say, "no?") , it's a little difficult to understand what they are whining about. Put on you big boy diapers Rs and get to work. If you don't like the job, there are plenty of people who would like to have government paid health care, a guaranteed pension and a hefty salary for the privilege of playing corporate messenger boys and complaining that the rich are mistreated.
Senator Kyl, _you_ of all people have so little respect for the entire planet that it should gall your own staff to have to be associated with you. It galls me as an American to be associdated with you as one of our 100 Senators, elected to look out for the health, welfare, and safety of this nation. Your refusal to accept the pleas of even all living Secretaries of State on START, your game-playing with earmarks, your equally mysterious mocking of the Tea Party, shows the kind of person you have finally become.
May your holidays be spent taking care of the nation's business this time-the entire nation, not just your own pockets. You jerk.
did anyone ever think that republicans would not complain about working more than a week or two over the holidays? poor boys they want their 3 week vacation! 1 in every 10 workers in this country is without a job, your house that you own is worth sometimes half of what yoiu paid for it your 401k is on life support and russia is about to restart the cold war because the start treaty has still not passed . these guys have not worked a five day week in a long time. the best one is that one of these republicans wants to have the start treaty be read word for word just to show his power! the one thing i have concluded in my life of 60 years is republicans care mostly about themseleves and don't give a crap about anyone else or their problems as well as the very country they get paid by. work close to christmas! give me a break!
Jon Kyl is just a lazy bum. Earn your paycheck you deadbeat GOP activist and get to work like the rest of us have to do.
I would figured it this way, they can have christmas vacation like every other fed worker, they get friday off and the weekend and thats it. why should they be any better than anyone else, also give them a half day travell. here is the thing my partner is a fedral employee , he gets no more than that off, if anything they are the ones that should be working overtime since this country is in crisis but you can watch them when they are on the floor , half of them are napping.
Solution, read the darn bill's and go vote on them. Let the votes decide!
give me a break -the reds are whiners – bohner cries- kyle lies- and the rest of them are idiots. I'm not happy with Obama either – so even he does run again – I'm voting for the Christine from DE! Enough is enough!
Keep trying to tell yourself your obstructionism is the will of the people when the public overwhelmingly supports the repeal of DADT, when the public overwhelmingly supports the START treaty. Selfish bunch of politicians full of themselves. Do your job and then you can go home.
Hey, I have to work on Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years and I get no extra pay for doing so. So Republicans should stop whinning. The ironic thing is that I work in Las Vegas Sen. Reids home state and you don't here us complaning about working on or through Christmas.
maybe if the No Party actually allowed work to get done and actually debated instead of fillibustering whenever they don't get every single thing they want, they'd be on holiday break already.
Kyl is my senator and he sucks. A lot of the population, like those that don't make minimum wage or say welcome to Walmart for a living, have to worl untll the job is done, all nighters, weekends, holidays. I've worked them all. So thay can all suck it up and start doing what we pay them to do and niether party has had the stones to do. I firmly advocate nuclear wepons testing in DC when the government is in session. Flush the toilet and start over.
Boo hoo hoo... Why don't you try working when you're supposed to?
Or you could always quit if you don't like the working conditions...
Sen Kyl- welcome to the REAL world! Many companies are staying open for a half day on the 24th – you certianly can work until the 23 then fly home like so many other Americans. you already are out of Washington so often ,nothing gets done- stay there and catch up on your work- like the rest of us!
Still wonder why your approval rating are so low you arrogant putz?
"To stop this rampage of spending" says DeMint. Laughable! The majority of Americans did not want to extend the tax cuts to the wealthy; does he care about that? Of course not. Tough crap, GOP. I say work for a change and if that means you work through a holiday, well join the rest of us middle class who often must do the same to get by. The GOP are a bunch of whining "mamby pambies" to coin a phrase from one of my fav. guys.
They need to stay until January 3rd if necessary to strip the spending bill FULL of earmarks! This is ridiculous....how can these people look in the mirror each morning. We have military personnel who will miss the holidays and not because they're a bunch of idiots like these politicians!
Republicans are so not Christians. I don't see why they even put up the facade anymore. We all know they truly dont follow Christ and His teachings.
Yeah.....there's nothing more important than disrespecting Christmas...not even nuclear war!!!
The republicans held the start treaty up this long....they could have been finished by now, if they hadn't held everything hostage to the tax cuts for the rich!!!
Ah!! Poor babies !!! Have they ever considered all of the people who have to work many weekends as well as holidays. The military, nurses, doctors, police, emergency workers of all kind, etc. Of course these people don't matter to the Repugs. They are only the people who contribute to their huge salaries and health care package. Stay in Washington and get the job done you cry babies.
II would think there are a whole lot of people that would welcome the chance to work at all – even through Christmas. Quit grandstanding and get to work.
wish someone would give him his bag of coal, he doesnt get it, he is an idiot just like the rest
Basically, it's time for the Republicans to suck it up and do some work for once. They obstructed for 2 years and now that they got their WEALTHFARE bill passed they want to go home but you know what you whiny little children, NOW it is time to pass the legislation you held up in lieu of getting the tax cuts for the rich passed.
GET TO WORK YOU SELFISH OLD FARTS!!
Don't even get me started. Be happy you have a job. 9.8% of this country would trade places with you. Think about that.
Oh, and on a side note............Albo58 is obviously just another one of your typical clueless, garden variety type, "speak first, think second" fan of the Fukt Noise Network...... "nothing" more, "nothing" less............NEXT!!!!!!!!
The Repulsives in the Party of No have shown that they have only themselves in mind and not the American public. This is just another example and wait, there are more coming that you idiots elected in November!
If the rethugs had been doing their jobs all year, they'd be home for Christmas! they all deserve nothing but lumps of coal this year for all the damage they've done to this country!
Christmas is a joyous and celebratory day. But the holiest day, Sen. Kyl, would be Easter. Stop wearing religion on your sleeve and go to work.
They have no problem shutting govt down, but complain when it's time to get things done!
What's wrong with those ppl!!!!???
Sooo....everybody who has to work on Christmas is disrespecting the holiday????
What about disrespecting JESUS on healthcare????
What would JESUS say about today's Republicans????
I want the ELITE running my country....I don't want drunken slobs or "unintelligent" people trying. It is what is best for any country for the 'best and brightest' to run it....unless you want to live in a third world country!!!!
He is talking about disrepect???What a hypocrite???That is exactly what the GOP has been doing the past 2 years to the American people and the President. What a load of bull.
I am a retired professor in nursing & I always worked the holiday seasons. I see no problem with both sides to continue through the holiday. As a nurse, I had the option to work either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. The same occurred during New Years. I believe with the salaries that the Congress obtains they should work during the holidays. I believe that this would show all of us as Americans that they really do care and what to obtain what is best for this country!!!!!!!!!!!!
For fire fighters, police and first responders no Christmas republicans senators didn’t care about 9/11 first responders why they need Christmas leave