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RE: Vacation Overtime

By Alfred S. Regnery on 9.30.05 @ 12:32PM

Congress should take as much vacation as they want. Was it Will Rogers who said that as long as Congress is not in session (read not in Washington) the Republic is secure? If they are disbursed around the world they are not spending our money, and no matter how much they spend on first class travel to anywhere they can think of going it will be cheaper than having them throw money at politically motivated problems. According to super lobbyist Tom Korologos, there are only two things that Congress does well: nothing and over-react. So let's not complain about their doing nothing.

About the Author

Alfred S. Regnery is the publisher of The American Spectator. He is the former president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc., which produced twenty-two New York Times bestsellers during his tenure. Regnery also served in the Justice Department during the Reagan Administration, worked on the U.S. Senate staff, and has been in private law practice. He currently serves on several corporate and non-profit boards, and is the Chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute .

His first book, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, was published in 2008. The book has been praised as one of the best authoritative accounts on the history of the American conservative movement.