But federal employees are starving and having their homes taken away.
Via Roll Call:
Things can always change in a hurry, but the House is leaving Washington Thursday to return on Monday — unless, of course members are needed to vote on something to end the partial government shutdown, say, over the weekend.
During their weekly colloquy to lay out the schedule for the coming week, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., bantered back and forth about the shutdown, assigning blame to one another before getting down to the brass tacks of when the chamber will need to be back next week.[…]
Otherwise, the schedule looks like this:
Monday — The chamber meets at noon for morning hour, 2 p.m. for legislative business, and votes postponed until 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday — Meets at 10 a.m. for morning hour, noon for legislative business.
Wednesday — Meets at 10 a.m. for morning hour, noon for legislative business.
Thursday — Meets at 9 a.m. for legislative business, with last votes expected no later than 3 p.m.