I don’t think that Ed Morrissey is looking at the big picture in his call for Congress to end the August recess at The Week:
There seems to be little reason for the August recess except as an escape, and the timing of it is particularly questionable. Every year, Congress has to pass a budget, an enormously complicated set of negotiations between 535 elected officials on Capitol Hill and the president at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Does it make sense to have a five-week gap in that process within a month of the deadline?
As long as Congress isn’t in session the republic is safe. As Will Rogers once quipped, the difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse when Congress is in session. I just wish they took longer recesses and much more frequently.
