James Lankford proposes that legislators work 7 days a week until they approve government spending

Oklahoma Senator James Paul Lankford is pushing a bipartisan bill aimed at stopping government shutdowns in the absence of a budget.

Together with Maggie Hassan, Democratic senator from New Hampshire, The 55-year-old Republican lawmaker suggests that when Congress misses funding deadlines, instead of stopping paychecks for millions of government workers, members of the Senate would have to stay in Washington, D.C., and work seven days a week. to passing spending bills.

In an interview with the newspaper Daily MailLankford Their colleagues in Congress show them a greater determination to reach a consensus instead of postponing their duties after having been elected to the position they occupy.

“It’s really simple: If you haven’t finished your classwork, you have to stay after class so you can finish it before you go home,” he said.

Even The Texas politician described the way legislators operate when the end of the work week approaches, leaving for later days what they cannot resolve at that momentas is the case with the approval of the government budget.

“If you’ve ever been on the steps of the House or Senate at the end of the week, you’ll see everyone running down the stairs to head to a plane because they have things with their families.”They have things again with the voters at home,” he stressed.

With the project presented by James Lankford A certain degree of pressure would be placed on legislators to agree to resolve the nation’s most important projects as soon as possible, otherwise their personal agenda outside of work would be affected and that would truly be self-punishment.

Meanwhile, Provisional spending bills would come into operation, but until they reached a consensus, legislators would be obliged to present themselves to Congress no matter how many days that entails.

According to Lankford, his proposal is receiving the support of several legislators from both parties among whom the idea of ​​being more responsible with the citizens they represent prevails.

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