Did you know the US Senate has only been in session 79 days (about 40% of the time) so far this year? And so far, we haven’t passed anything to secure our elections, reduce inflation, cut spending, or prevent another Democrat shutdown.Well, what isn’t shocking is the fact nothing has gotten done while we only work 2.5 days out of the week.It is crazy.
At the slow rate we are getting stuff done, we should be working 7 days.Let’s just take a status update: The Senate has yet to deliver on several of our key promises to the American people this year, including securing our elections through the SAVE America Act.TRUMP HOLDS WASHINGTON HOSTAGE OVER SAVE ACT AS MIDTERM CLOCK TICKS ON GOP CONTROLAs I noted in a recent letter to my Senate colleagues.Republicans, Democrats, and Independents overwhelmingly want voter ID for elections and only Americans to be able to register for elections, the main components of the SAVE America Act.Yet the Senate still hasn’t passed it — or even agreed on how to proceed on it.
To fix this, we need to change how we do business.The job of a Senator used to be to arrive in Washington to debate, vote on, and accomplish all our agenda items before we allowed ourselves to go home.Sadly, that’s no longer the case.In recent decades, under the leadership of both Democrats and Republicans, the Senate has worked less and less, and Americans felt the consequences of the legislature’s lack of urgency.Right now, we take fewer than 10 votes a week.
We arrive late Monday to vote and leave as soon as possible on Thursday afternoon.The Senate is rarely in session on Fridays and almost never works over the weekend — even when pressing deadlines approach on issues critical to the safety, security, and stability of the American people.And it’s not just election security that is at stake.
We still need to fund the government to prevent another open-borders Democrat shutdown.We need to cut spending to reduce interest rates and inflation that...