Here’s a comparison of the House of Representatives schedules for 2013-2014. Looks amazingly alike in how many days they’ll be in recess, doesn’t it? 
Tag: Speaker Boehner
24 billion dollars later…
The Senate and House finally passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling and re-open the government late last night. What an worthless waste of time and money these past two weeks have been.
A collection of animations about Congress and the government shutdown (click on each image):
Speaker Boehner chasing after his fig leaf
The Speaker and the nutty conservatives who lead him continue to drag the rest of America further into the hole they’ve been digging. Last night the House again failed to come up with a plan to lift the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown- so they basically threw the mess into the Senate’s lap and went home. 
GOP proposes to open parts of the government
We’re in day 2 of the Government Shutdown. The Republicans are trying to change the narrative from the fact they caused the shutdown over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), so they’re proposing to open parts of the governments to appeal to certain groups of voters. 
When the clock strikes twelve
So we’re back at a government shutdown, the first in 17 years. At midnight tonight 800,000 workers will be furloughed, basically because the Tea Party Republicans refuse to accept that Obamacare is law and have turned Speaker Boehner into just a mouthpiece for their cause.
Sketches from 2013 Inauguration
I was live-sketching for the Washington Post today; here’s what I ended up with:
Congress Clowns
President Obama to meet today with congressional leaders; Speaker Boehner calls the House back into session on Sunday. The fiscal cliff nonsense continues….
Speaker Boehner appoints a woman to committee chair
Oh, look- just days after Speaker Boehner appointed 19 men to committee chair positions for the 113th Congress, he announces that Representative Candice S. Miller of Michigan will head the Committee on House Administration. 
GOP tries to figure out what went wrong
The Washington Post has a story about top GOP officials planning “an exhaustive review to figure out what went so wrong and how to fix it”. I don’t think the Republicans need to spend all that money on focus groups; try joining the 21st century.