CBS’ Bob Schieffer Is Not Happy! Scolds Senators For Taking Too Many Vacations

Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer couldn’t fathom why members of Congress get so much vacation time and voiced his frustration with Republican Senator Mark Kirk and Democratic Senator Chris Coons. Neither freshman senator was able to offer Schieffer an explanation that satisfied him, yet what perturbed him the most was that a bunch of Senators took a taxpayer-funded trip to Macau, the gambling capital of Asia.

Possibly angry that he had to work on Easter Sunday, Schieffer complained:

“Most of us – if you’re Jewish you get Passover off and if you’re Christian you get Good Friday off. But the Congress is taking two weeks off. President’s Day you took a week off. If I’m not mistaken, this is now five vacations since January that the Senate and the Congress have taken. Why?”

Kirk and Coons both agreed that they are frustrated with the slow pace of how the Senate works. Yet Schieffer’s point seems valid, maybe if the Senators were on vacation less often, then more might be able to be accomplished in the Senate quicker?

Watch the clip from CBS below:

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