Just how much recess does congress get?

A couple of my boys asked that.  Since the story was about wrestling with this all important healthcare bill that could kill millions, and going on recess, it’s a fair question.

We ran into it ourselves when we tried to plan a field trip to the Ohio Senate.  Since my boys all work, we needed to schedule ahead.  You’d think it would be easier than it was.

So given the difficulty of zeroing in on just when our elected officials are there and when they aren’t, here’s a little classic to make sense of it all: