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BumRushDaShow

(163,177 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:57 AM 14 hrs ago

'That's what happened!' Hearing erupts after GOP accused of using shutdown for 'vacation'

Source: Raw Story

November 11, 2025 11:19PM ET


The marathon House Rules Committee on Tuesday night erupted after a Democratic lawmaker accused Republicans of using the eight-week government shutdown to take a vacation.

The committee met to debate a legislative package that would keep the government open through January 2026. Part of the package includes policy proposals like allowing Republican lawmakers to sue former special counsel Jack Smith because he subpoenaed their phone records as part of his investigation into the January 6 insurrection.

During the hearing, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) got into a shouting match after Ansari accused Republicans of taking a vacation during the government shutdown. "Welcome back from your eight weeks of taxpayer-funded vacation," Ansari's opening statement began. "It's good to see you and I hope that you..."

Foxx interrupted Ansari before she could continue. "I'm so sick and tired of hearing you all say we had an eight-week vacation," Foxx said sternly. "That's exactly what happened!" Ansari shot back.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/house-rules-2674287041/

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'That's what happened!' Hearing erupts after GOP accused of using shutdown for 'vacation' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
Kick! Congress was paid 30,000 dollars for days they didn't work. bronxiteforever 14 hrs ago #1
Someone Should Check modrepub 11 hrs ago #15
I believe it was Jaimie Raskin gab13by13 14 hrs ago #2
Touchy, touchy. I think she is a bit sensitive. Perhaps overly so. Like feeling guilty? Biophilic 14 hrs ago #3
Well, there's actual guilt and there's defensiveness at being called out. ShazzieB 12 hrs ago #11
The true reality is: popsdenver 13 hrs ago #4
Maybe this explains why Repukes did so badly in last week's election? FakeNoose 13 hrs ago #8
Here in Colorado popsdenver 6 hrs ago #19
My sister and her husband live in Denver and she loves it FakeNoose 3 hrs ago #21
Dems! Stay on the attack! It's working! nt Exp 13 hrs ago #5
Virginia Foxx is awful. yardwork 13 hrs ago #6
An old harpy with sharp claws. sheshe2 13 hrs ago #9
As one myself I'd normally applaud but she's horrible. yardwork 10 hrs ago #16
Yep. OldBaldy1701E 6 hrs ago #20
Patriotic hardworking freedom hating garbage republicans are sick and tired BOSSHOG 13 hrs ago #7
The lady The Wizard 13 hrs ago #10
She wasn't the only one! 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #12
Ugh. Virginia Foxx again. Wednesdays 11 hrs ago #13
Gerrymandered into a cozy safe district, probably never. yardwork 10 hrs ago #17
zinger. AllaN01Bear 11 hrs ago #14
"That's exactly what happened, you pedo protecting apologist harpy!" flvegan 10 hrs ago #18

bronxiteforever

(10,952 posts)
1. Kick! Congress was paid 30,000 dollars for days they didn't work.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:00 AM
14 hrs ago

Sounds like a vacation to me. That is not counting the endless golf trips of the Orange blancmange.

modrepub

(3,962 posts)
15. Someone Should Check
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:59 PM
11 hrs ago

If the Mara largo trips are being expensed. Would be a back door way of finding out what Trump is charging per visit.

Congressional expense reports should be part of the pubic record like every other federal worker drone. And if it’s not, then the next Congress should make it so, retroactively.

gab13by13

(30,624 posts)
2. I believe it was Jaimie Raskin
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:02 AM
14 hrs ago

who said last night that some Magats went on a hiking vacation while others visited Europe.

Biophilic

(6,263 posts)
3. Touchy, touchy. I think she is a bit sensitive. Perhaps overly so. Like feeling guilty?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:02 AM
14 hrs ago

Nah, republicans don't feel guilty. They wouldn't do half the things they do if they felt any guilt. So, just touchy.

ShazzieB

(21,953 posts)
11. Well, there's actual guilt and there's defensiveness at being called out.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:18 PM
12 hrs ago

Rep. Foxx may not feel guilty, but she undoubtedly knows that a lot of Americans, no doubt including many of her constituents are upset about the shutdown, along with a lot of other things, from the price of eggs to the armed ICE goons that are beating people up and dragging them off to jail for the "crimes" of having brown skin or speaking Spanish in public. And she DID just have an 8 week paid vacation. She's mad because she'd rather not be reminded that voters have lots of reasons to be mad at her right now.

popsdenver

(980 posts)
4. The true reality is:
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:27 AM
13 hrs ago

They simply don't have anything else to do. All they have to do, is precisely what they are told to do.....by 2025, Trump, etc......
Every morning they open their secretive email, and their marching orders for the day are given to them by StephenMiller/RussellVought INC.
Seriously less exhausting than being creative or having to think for themselves.......(a lot like some voters we know)

Not much different than their normal work weeks: Show up on Tuesday Afternoon, leave at noon on Thursday..........

FakeNoose

(39,444 posts)
8. Maybe this explains why Repukes did so badly in last week's election?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:03 PM
13 hrs ago

They could have gone to their home districts and campaigned, but no. That's too much like work, and who cares anyway?
Democrats cared, that's who.

popsdenver

(980 posts)
19. Here in Colorado
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:21 PM
6 hrs ago

in my opinion, we have not one, but two U.S. Senators that really haven't done much of anything, as far as I can tell.....We also have a U.S. House member here in Denver, who, as a dem, gets automatically re-elected regardless, who we don't hear much about either.

One of our U.S. Senators, has decided to add a new political feather to his cap, and is quitting the U.S. Senate and running for Governor.
Our governor, in my opinion, is a pro-corporate DINO, and is term limited......

FakeNoose

(39,444 posts)
21. My sister and her husband live in Denver and she loves it
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:41 PM
3 hrs ago

She grew up in Pittsburgh and has voted D her entire life, in fact they both have. It seems to me that there's something for everybody in Denver, if you look hard enough. It's nice place to raise your kids, so I'm not knocking Denver.

yardwork

(68,551 posts)
16. As one myself I'd normally applaud but she's horrible.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:34 PM
10 hrs ago

Mean, vindictive, lying, just the worst.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,487 posts)
20. Yep.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:39 PM
6 hrs ago

My fellow North Carolinian.

I grew up around so many like her that there are times I hear them in my sleep.

(I, of course, was related to a number of them. Little dictators in small towns across the state, the lot of them. Never been anywhere but think they know everything. And people wonder why I moved from my town of 560 to 'the city' once I was able. "Well, no one is going to know who you are up there." "YES, That's the damned point!&quot

Trust me, no self-respecting harpy would go near her.

BOSSHOG

(44,111 posts)
7. Patriotic hardworking freedom hating garbage republicans are sick and tired
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:59 AM
13 hrs ago

Of hearing the truth. So Dems keep it up. What will they get sick and tired of hearing before the end of the day? Something connected with EPSTEIN? Good Lord it must suck to be a Republican. On vacation or hard at work.

2naSalit

(98,839 posts)
12. She wasn't the only one!
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:42 PM
12 hrs ago

I saw video of Rep McGovern (D-MA) open his statement with the same claim, along with other comments chastising them.

flvegan

(65,476 posts)
18. "That's exactly what happened, you pedo protecting apologist harpy!"
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:01 PM
10 hrs ago

would have been better.

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