Snow Forces U.S. House Of Representatives To Cancel Work Week

WASHINGTON — Mother Nature's wrath has forced the U.S. House to scrap its work week.

No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer said Tuesday the body will not meet the rest of the week and no votes are scheduled. His comments came as Washington remained paralyzed from one blizzard and hunkered down in anticipation of a possible 10-20 inches more of snow.

Last weekend's storm closed area airports for a few days, preventing many lawmakers from returning to the nation's capital. With Congress on a previously scheduled break next week for the Presidents' Day holiday, lawmakers won't be back in Washington until Feb. 22.

Comments

[Firbolg]

05:25 PM on 02/09/2010

Apparently the Senate is still doing the country’s business.
Or, perhaps undoing.
No sooner was Richard Shelby’s blocking of all, or most, of Obama nominations removed than, with Ben Nelson leading the charge, the world’s premier debating chamber rejected the nominee for the NLRB, Craig Becker 52 – 33.

[FGW]

05:46 PM on 02/09/2010

Let’s send him, Lieberman, Lincoln and all the other supposed blue dogs over to the Republicans and tell them to never come back. These people make a majority pointless...
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[teron678]

05:11 PM on 02/09/2010

Why are the tr0lls bringing up "Global Warming"???????

p.s ... Global Warming has to do with the Climate not the Weather.

[Forever21]

05:17 PM on 02/09/2010

Bless your heart. "Climate change" didn't come up until it came out that the last 10 years there has been a drop in temperature. Maybe you should change to global cooling now???? Wasn't in the seventies that they said a "Great Freeze" was coming? Time to end the charade. No on is buying it now.

[Poiks]

05:25 PM on 02/09/2010

Nobody but those wacky scientists and most of the public. Bless your heart.

[fuOBL]

05:19 PM on 02/09/2010

Yoou should do a LOT more posting on here!

[Forever21]

05:09 PM on 02/09/2010

Does anyone on here still believe in the Global Warming Scam? It was all about funneling money to the "Big Boys". Look how rich Gore became from the scam. By the way, where has he been lately? Hiding from the facts or just counting his money?

[xmlman]

05:12 PM on 02/09/2010

Global warming is why we're having such extremes nimrod.

[fuOBL]

05:20 PM on 02/09/2010

Still "workin' it"! LOL!

[Forever21]

05:23 PM on 02/09/2010

Boy you are gullible. I think a Kennedy said a few years ago that the days of snow in DC were gone. Are you really that young and that you don't know the wide swings of our climate over the years. They are really counting on people like you to keep believing their garbage.

[travelah]

04:55 PM on 02/09/2010

This is a wonderful Birthday tribute to our late great President Ronald Reagan.

[fuOBL]

05:21 PM on 02/09/2010

No spending! Love it!

[WiltonDiary]

05:21 PM on 02/09/2010

Reagan was great? Glad you liked him...Reagan raised taxes on the middle class; cut and run from Beirut after 241 Marines were killed by terrorists! Reagan also held the first gay sleepover at the white house, while he and Nancy were in the private quarters. Reagan doubled the National deficitc said they didn't matter.

Reagan signed a1986 bill which ended up granting amnesty to 2.7 million illegal immigrants. In 1981, he nominated the socially moderate Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court, Two of Reagan’s three Supreme Court nominees voted to uphold Roe v. Wade. Turns out this Reagan guy wasn’t really that Reaganite after all.

[travelah]

05:39 PM on 02/09/2010

Actually he was quite Reagan. I am not sure what you expect me to object to in your list even if it was somewhat not accurate. You forgot. He also had ketchup declared a veggie.

[anachoret]

04:51 PM on 02/09/2010

Two weeks off, without giving themselves a raise.

[opposingviewsareopposed]

04:48 PM on 02/09/2010

Is the Office of Global Warming open?

This is too funny!!

Global Warming...Blow baby B low!!

[WiltonDiary]

05:22 PM on 02/09/2010

Once again the subject turns to illiteracy; global warming is about the climate!

[M Jordan]

04:45 PM on 02/09/2010

Doesn't make any difference they don't do anything anyway.

[fed alchemy]

04:45 PM on 02/09/2010

The Country is in a CRISIS stage...the World is in hiding. Kick the can down the road and go on your way sheeple.

[AxelDC]

04:47 PM on 02/09/2010

Washington has received over 4' of snow in two weeks. DC rarely gets more than a foot a year.

DC is not equipped to deal with such weather, not should any city fund the resources to combat a storm that breaks 90 year old records.

[FutureUnperson]

05:08 PM on 02/09/2010

At least you can verify that record, without faking any numbers.

[iridium53]

04:44 PM on 02/09/2010

No wonder the United States Congress can't get any work done.

A couple of feet of snow and they shut the government down.

Too afraid to get their feet cold, so they just shut the whole government down.
Amazing.
Are they schoolkids?

[AxelDC]

04:48 PM on 02/09/2010

This is the snowiest two weeks in the DC region's history. Any region that deals with once-in-a-lifetime weather is going to have trouble coping.

[IWantTofu]

05:10 PM on 02/09/2010

When I was a kid, my parents used to make me walk to school in the middle of winter.

Barefoot.

In Hawaii.

[Poiks]

05:26 PM on 02/09/2010

Uphill. Both ways.

[MED1025]

04:41 PM on 02/09/2010

It snowed just as much here and I have to go to work. What weenies.

[AxelDC]

04:50 PM on 02/09/2010

Where is "here"? If you are in a region that normally gets snow, you pay good money for your city to pay for the plows and staff to combat that.

Cities unused to snow don't pay for equipment that rarely gets used or have staff who never work. That's like complaining that few places in Scotland have air conditioning. Why should they waste the money?

[MED1025]

05:21 PM on 02/09/2010

Southeastern PA within 90 miles of the DC area. We don't usually get this much snow either.

[mcmutter]

04:40 PM on 02/09/2010

Lobbyists continue to screw this country over, day and night, 365 days a year ..... neither wind, nor rain, snow or ice shall stop them from their malicious duties......

[DnDCfromChi-town]

04:39 PM on 02/09/2010

Must be nice!

[AxelDC]

04:51 PM on 02/09/2010

No, it's not nice. I've been housebound for 5 days and went over 24 hours without power.

Trust me, I'd rather be at work.

[DnDCfromChi-town]

05:06 PM on 02/09/2010

As a Chicagoan who lived in DC for 5 years I find it outrageous that nations capitol shuts down every time there is snow on the ground. There are things to do!

[FutureUnperson]

04:39 PM on 02/09/2010

One more week of safety for America... funny how the new Global Warming office could not open on schedule due to snow....

[AxelDC]

04:51 PM on 02/09/2010

Amazing how many ignorant comments on weather. Did no one pay attention in 8th grade science?

[FutureUnperson]

05:10 PM on 02/09/2010

It is obvious that you are reading things into my comment that are not there.

[AxelDC]

04:08 PM on 02/10/2010

Look at the AP wire today about how global warming intensifies and makes blizzards more likely in the near term.

[TeaPartyVoter]

04:35 PM on 02/09/2010

Maybe they can use the extra time to find another CorpseMan for Obama to talk about.

[FGW]

05:37 PM on 02/09/2010

Or maybe you can become our palmreader now that would be something to talk about..
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[lvdragonlady]

04:32 PM on 02/09/2010

When are American's going to step up and tell their government that LOBBYISTS are unacceptable and they should be outlawed.

NO MORE LOBBYISTS !!!!! NO MORE LOBBYISTS!!!!!

p.s. If we get rid of them, congress will actually have to read the bills before they vote for them instead of having a lobbyist give them the high points.

[magnoliabird]

04:42 PM on 02/09/2010

But we know that won't happen. Congress does not want the Lobbyist to be forbidden. Congress players want to see who is willing to pay them for pushing the Lobbyist agendas. Congress players see this a way to increase their own coffers, irregardless of what they project to the general public. They will balk Obama as they have, regarding lobbyist exclusion.