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Too? even among people who disagree as to what democrats should be prioritizing and doing with their time in the majority. more time to do all of it would help any and all of those priorities. jonathan bernstein has recently been making this case at bloomberg news. you see the headline there, congress should cancel its summer recess. he argues that more time means more options for the majority. he says " additional senate time would be especially valuable for the basic work of confirming biden's executive branch and judicial nominations. there is now an increasing logjam of nominations that ha...

Durbin says between now and the fall, they have six workweeks on the calendar. they are burning daylight. it's time to get moving. understandable frustration there, both from firebrand pro bres recei progressives. massachusetts senator ed markey has an idea. he said this week, if the infrastructure bill isn't just negotiated, if it isn't -- if it isn't voted on and passed and on the president's desk before the august recess this year, before their big break to catch up on their summer reading, he says, if this isn't passed before the august recess, then they shouldn't take their august recess....

Would be valuable for the basic work of confirming biden's executive branch and judicial nominations. there's an increasing logjam that have been cleared for final action. it's likely to get worse with more than 100 still needs committee consideration. the results has been that the confirmation pace has fallen behind what it was at this point many obama's and george w. bush's presidencies. leaving town as scheduled for two weeks for the 4th of july and then another five weeks for august recess without making substantial progress on that gap, that would be irresponsible. but what about the summ...

Today. >> everybody should anticipate we will be here as i announced today. what he had announced -- this was 2018, trump was president. republicans were in control of the senate. what he announced is they were cancelling the august recess. they shortened it. they took a single week off instead of the whole month off. they did it because they could. because mitch mcconnell and the republicans had the majority. they wanted to use it to do stuff, even if their summer reading lists were going to be neglected. they didn't actually even have legislation they were working on at the time. they just w...