Both the Senate and the House of Representatives were set to reconvene on May 4th, but now only the Senate will be meeting. After an outcry from representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer decided against returning to Washington D. C., saying it is too dangerous.
Senate Republicans
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated that: “Senators will return to Washington D.C. one week from today. We will modify routines in ways that are smart and safe, but we will honor our constitutional duty to the American people and conduct critical business in person.
Senator John Cornyn explained the reasoning for the return to work: “This idea we were going to hunker down and shelter in place for an indefinite period of time, it’s just inconsistent with the reality of us needing to do our job.”
Senate safety
Washington D.C. and surrounding areas have thousands of cases of the coronavirus. According to Live Science: “As of April 30, Washington, D.C. reported 4,658 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and 231 deaths associated with it, according to public health authorities in D.C. This makes it 34th in the list of states for the most US coronavirus cases.”
McConnell reassured the returning senators and their staffs that safety measures will be observed upon their return to Washington, saying: “We’re going to take whatever safeguards the Capitol physician recommends that we engage in and we believe we can do that safely.”
President Trump offered to provide rapid COVID-19 testing to the Senate and the House, but both McConnell and Pelosi declined.
There is tremendous CoronaVirus testing capacity in Washington for the Senators returning to Capital Hill on Monday. Likewise the House, which should return but isn’t because of Crazy Nancy P. The 5 minute Abbott Test will be used. Please inform Dr. Brian P. Monahan. @MarkMeadows
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2020
In a joint statement, McConnell and Pelosi said: “Congress is grateful for the Administration’s generous offer to deploy rapid COVID-19 testing capabilities to Capitol Hill, but we respectfully decline the offer at this time,”
House Democrats reverse decision to return
Pelosi and Hoyer had announced the reconvening of the House which has been on recess since March 14th, but met an outcry from members worried about the dangers of the virus. Citing safety concerns, they then reversed their position to delay their return.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) decried the move as “dangerous.” Others said returning would violate the D.C. stay-at-home order which won’t be lifted until May 15th.
As far as when the House will reconvene, Hoyer said, “very soon.”
President Trump has been working all along
President Trump has a theory about why House Democrats don’t want to return. “They are enjoying their vacation.”
President Trump has a reason to mock the House and their excuses for not getting back to work. He has stayed in Washington the entire time Congress has been on recess, working with the White House Coronavirus Task Force to manage the national crisis.
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NO WORK….NO PAY Either get to work for the American people or stay home, and resign your office, along with all the other “perks”, and pension that goes with it.
I agree 100%.
Me too
Me three
So true. The rest of Americans aren’t getting paid, congress shouldn’t be paid to stay home and cause more hate for our potus and Christian conservatives. Pelosi needs to be unelected, she is a nasty hateful woman.
NO WORK NO PAY WHAT A GREAT IDEA. PELOSI HAS HELD UP EVERY STIMULUS FROM THE BEGINNING ,SHE HAS PUT MORE PEOPLE AT RISK WHEN SHE TOLD THE PEOPLE TO COME TO THE SAN FRANCISCO CHINA TOWN ,IT WAS SAFE .SHE IT THE REAL VIRUS INFECTING EVERY AMERICAN .SHE MUST GO ALONG WITH FEINSTEIN ,SCHIFF ,WATERS, AND SCHUMER .
I agree. These lazy, pathetic, excuses for human beings, being paid by us, to work for us, are useless.
I agree
Yes!!! No work, No pay!!!!
Agreed. No work no pay and return monies taken the previous months when the House didn’t work, Just took up space.
When has the House Dems. Worked anyway? They have spent three years trying to unseat President Trump in a coup.
Better give them free use of a jail cell.
sounds like they EVER worked?!?!?!?!
Get to work or get out. You’ve done nothing for the last 3 years. But try to destroy our President!! Not one of you deserve to even have a seat in the house. As far as I’m concerned you should all be impeached. Your a disgrace to our country.
“You’ve done nothing for the last 3 years” – did you mean 30 years??
That may also be true, but I was making a point of Dems. doing nothing for the American people in their never ending attempt to ruin Republican/conservatives lives as they collided to take down President Trump.
I agree get to work. We the people are paying you to work, not set at home and play your games Nacy Pelosi. Get back to the house of Representatives.
did you mean “non-see pee-lousy”?
1,000% in agreement with that.
Good comment. . .wished I had said that.
I second that statement!
I agree with Cliff. They have big salaries; big pensions and all they do is argue. Either they get to work for the American people (w/o fighting) or they should get fired.
I so agree no work no pay and no pensions or perks thay thay get
If they are non-essential, then why do we need them at all? They don’t want to work for their pay, so why should they get anything? When the rest of us refuse to do our jobs, we get fired. So, maybe these non-essential workers are just that, non-essential after all.
Agreed!
they haven’t worked for us in 40 years!!!
So right!!
So true! And let’s not pay you while out better yet you are fired!!
They are the only folks in the country getting paid an ridiculous salary. How about no pay until they come back. WHIMPS!
Nancy l can smell your bad breath over the phone Stay home and get some sleep We don’t need you.
why these people get payed for doing nothing for whom the are suposeto work for?? , they dont work for us the people ,get rid of them all ! they work for illegals and terrorists, dont work for we the people! pelosi should have been gone years ago!
You are right. They need to loose their pension and everything else. They also should have to live with the same things and rules that the rest of us have to. No more freebies.
I agree
I signed a petition stating those things same rules for them as the American people no pension have to do same social security
Now Pelosi and her Minions are using absurd responses as to why they are staying home , their pay should reflect only the time when or if they ever do something !!!!
It doesn’t matter if you are a Dem or Rep . Think of the American people .Its not all about you as an individual. Its about WE THE PEOPLE. You work for.
Get on with the job you have to do.If these democrats statuses get on without them .Show them They care not essential
Don’t worry Nancy will speak for all of her democratic colleagues , the will do what she says!
No work no pay and loose all perks for a year
I agree with everyone above. Nasty Nancy is just playing games. She needs to go.
I agree with you all . the only one’s that are working through this are Trump and Pence, and Trump DONATES his pay. Many Republicans are working but none come close to the POTUS.
Of all people, Congress should be at work during this critical time. Those who opt not to be on the job, are arrogant, egotistical, asinine, and have little or no allegiance to America. They should care more about our nation than attacking the President .
Hey Nancy , get the broom stick out of your butt and fly it back to Washington. No pay for the time you’re on vacation on my tax dollars. I highly recommend you pay us back and resign. You’re an evil person.
If you don’t show up for work, you don’t get paid and you are put on probation.
If you continue not showing up, then you are fired.
The same should go for the person(s) who are keeping the house closed.
Shame on Congress!
Shame on House Speaker Pelosi.
Looks like your using your PTO.
No one else gets payed when not working why should they!!!!!!
Well said!
Mitch McConnell: “We will modify routines in ways that are smart and safe, but we will honor our constitutional duty to the American people and conduct critical business in person.”
That is the attitude we as citizens expect from our elected leaders and not from those showing clay feet by placing personal fears above their sworn pledge to serve the nation. The photo of N. Pelosi accompanying the news article couldn’t have been more expressive of one taken over by fear.
The true moochers of society
This is Congress job to show up and do the work you are being paid for. I wish Pelosi would lose the job as speaker. remember %*# speaker you work for us the people not the people work for you.
That ridiculous old PRUNE Pelosi needs to forgo her big salary since she is doing nothing!!! WE WILL REMEMBER!
Get to work sicko obstructionist!!
This is great news!! Glad the Senate want to and are ready to do their jobs.
Yes, Pelosi is an evil person! We may not be able to get her fired but she has to stand before the same judge as we Americans do on judgment day!
I totally agree with everyone here. The problem is they control the purse strings. They really don’t have a boss th@t says your fired.
Fire Pelosi. Fire Schiff. Fire every damn one of them that do not show up including Republicans. A job is a job! Let the ppl vote on it. Pelosi & mates have done nothing but hurt America. She was on vacation when the virus was made public & only came back to criticize the President’s border closures and travel bans. Then she held up much needed funds for AMERICAN CITIZENS & blackmailed her way to hijacking money for her causes. Enough is Enough!!! Why should America suffer for California’s bad choices.??? Crown her Queen of California and cut that state and all their representatives from federal funding and any American decisions. We are better off without the trash flowing out of what used to be a nice state.
Pelosi is a disgrace to the House and the USA. She is absolutely non-essential!
Nancy is an Apostle from Hell. Babies’ killer. Too arrogant, and too corrupted.
O Lord have mercy on her soul 🙏
President Trump called her “Crazy ‘Nancy Pelosi, you are a weak person. You are a poor leader. You are the reason America hates career politicians like yourself”.
“She is totally incompetent & controlled by the Radical Left, a weak and pathetic puppet. Come back to Washington and do your job”.
🙏LONG LIVE JESUS 🙏
🙏JESUS is LORD, KING of Kings🙏
Go Mr. President # 45, the LORD is with you.
“HE will cover you with HIS Feathers,
and under HIS Wings you will find refuge;
HIS faithfulness is a shield and buckler;
You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday,
…
no evils shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
For The LORD will command HIS Angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways…” 🙏
PSALM 91.
How beautiful! I agree that God sent President Trump to help bring back America back to God’s graces! You may think he is not a Saint? God uses people with skills to make things happen! Trump has and will continue to keep America in God’s hands. Countries like China and Russia are death camps! Democrats are trying to bring America in to world order which is under evil! God brought Trump to save Democracy that puts Christianity first through God!
Yes. He can be a Saint. Not all Saints were perfect or holy people from the begining as we have read in the Holy Bible.
‘One morning around 5:30am, I tried to get up, then my body was frozen, I cannot move, just like a force held me down. The more I tried, that force held me down tighter, so I decided to stop resisting, but relaxe. Then a feeling of warmth and peace entered my body like I was lying in à hammock. All of the sudden, my lips spoke by themselves which I was unable to control or stop them. Three words come out “king Donald Trump”. Like a speed of light, I jumped up then I emailed about my encountered with a supernatural being in my room to my Mom in Texas. Because, Mom keeps my many dreams and visions in case some people attack me which I was often bullied by friends at work. I shared with my friends, all of them mocked and laughed at me, but one person is Mom always believed me. Since then Mom & I have devoted our times fasting/praying for the President before and after he’s elected until this day.’
You don’t have to believe me, I only shared a tiny bit of my encounter with the Holy Being, why I believed that POTUS was chosen by GOD to lead His people back to HIM, and therefore he can be considered as a Saint. One I don’t understand why POTUS was called “King Donald Trump”, but i never dared to ask the LORD about it. I knew HE is GOD the Creator and HE knows what He’s doing.
🙏All Praises Be To You my LORD, forever and ever.
AMEN 🙏
All I can say is that Nancy Polosi is the most wicked person I have ever seen.
I have never seen a lier like Schiff he is disgraceful American and totally discusting Schumer I think could be decent but he can’t speek for himself. He can only do what Momma Polosi tells him to do. They are all greedy sick (I hate to call them people) because I think they are not humans
Damn right! I tweeted to Donald Trump about 4 days ago demanding the Senators and Congress people not get paid. I said WE are their employers. They have needlessly and recklessly spent our tax money for their every whim and hoax they can find. I told him to just do it! We cant and wont take anymore, period. On top of that, I think they should pay back every penny they spent on the Russian Hoax, and then arrest every damn on of the offensive pieces of sewage!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…..AND THE VOTERS THAT VOTED THEM IN, ? ARE THEY NOW PROUD OF PELOSI
THEY SHOULD BE SORRY – AND VOTE HER OUT OF OFFICE !
And Pelosi will fly in on her broomstick & bring her trillion $$$$ stimulus bill for illegals – free free free –
Bail outs for sanctuary cities & the Republicans will do like they always do
CAVE!!! Our politicians r a disgrace!!!
This really takes the cake. I have never seen more feckless, lazy, worthless, lying, thieving piss poor excuses of human beings in my life. I simply do not understand how anyone could vote for such shameful people.
God Bless President Trump.
God Bless our AMERICA.
WE THE PEOPLE are their employers! Have they forgotten this? I say since they don’t work [EVER] they should not get paid…..PERIOD! Can someone out there answer a question for me? WHO in our government decided on the outrageous sums of money that politicians are paid, AND how is it legal that Congress can give themselves raises?? Do WE THE PEOPLE have a legal right to determine what salaries will be for the people in public office ? This has all gotten so out of hand and it needs to be corrected !! I think the LEFTIST are disgusting people and need to be booted out ! I pray the Democratic Party remembers everything when Election Day comes around & gets these crooked people out of office. But I guess that won’t happen because of all the illegal voting schemes that are going on with them. What a bunch of hypocrite’s !
I just remembered what my Daddy always told me as a child….When a person doesn’t work they don’t get paid AND they don’t eat !! And that was from a man that worked in the 1940s and 1950s 10 or 12 hours a day with his hands & felt very blessed if he got paid $5 a day ! Congress doesn’t want to go sit in an office for an outrageous amount of money?? SHAME ON THEM !!
PELOSI WILL FALL, ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER SCUM!!! “EVIL CONSUMES ITSELF” JUST BELIEVE. IT WILL HAPPEN!!! JUST CONTINUE BUSINESS AS USUAL, OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT HAS ACCOMPLISHED ALREADY WITHOUT THE SCUMBAGS!!! BETTER WITHOUT THEM, GO FORTH WITH GODS’ BLESSINGS!!!
The dumbocrats are useless as rocks and need to live as we the people have to live with ow wages and nothing extra for the family.
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