{"id":10283,"date":"2017-07-10T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=10283"},"modified":"2017-07-09T10:33:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:33:29","slug":"just-much-recess-congress-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/07\/just-much-recess-congress-get.html","title":{"rendered":"Just how much recess does congress get?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A couple of my boys asked that. \u00a0Since the story was about wrestling with this all important healthcare bill that could kill millions, and going on recess<\/a>, it\u2019s a fair question.<\/p>\n

We ran into it ourselves when we tried to plan a field trip to the Ohio Senate. \u00a0Since my boys all work, we needed to schedule ahead. \u00a0You\u2019d think it would be easier than it was.<\/p>\n

So given the difficulty of zeroing in on just when our elected officials are there and when they aren\u2019t, here\u2019s a little classic to make sense of it all:<\/p>\n