After a five-week recess and the hard labor of political conventioneering, members of the House managed to stop briefly at the Capitol last week to enact a temporary budget to avoid a government shutdown. But, after Friday, they will be back home politicking nonstop until Election Day, and the Senate is also expected to cancel its scheduled October duties in Washington. Lawmakers call their latest hiatus from the job of legislating "an extended district work period," but it will be spent mostly bragging to voters about imaginary accomplishments. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.