Rep. Cliff Stearns Proposes Suspending Congress So That Cliff Stearns Can Attend a Football Game

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Speaker Pelosi, sorry to bother you, but hardworking Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) has been back on the job for nearly 3 days this congressional term. Don't you think it's time he got a break to watch football?

And on the topic, could you suspend all voting while he's away?

Stearns, a Republican from Ocala [Florida], wrote to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday asking her to move votes scheduled for Thursday evening and Friday so House members from Florida and Oklahoma can go to the Bowl Championship Series national title game.

Stearns must have been weeping bitter tears as he wrote a formal appeal to Pelosi, begging her to, "move these votes to either Wednesday and/or Thursday morning to allow Members to attend this historic game."

And by "Members," he means Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL). No one else signed the letter.

Needless to say, this is an outrage. Any country that forbids elected lawmakers from attending elite sporting events on the dime of taxpayers and campaign donors simply because they're required to do their actual job... well that's not a country worth living in.

But the truth is, Pelosi won't miss Stearns at all if he books it to Florida tonight. With the sports world fully tuned in to college football, there'd be no one around to participate in the one thing Stearns actually accomplishes on Capitol Hill...

Steroids hearings.

Filed Under: House, Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Gaffes

Tagged: BCS, Cliff Stearns, CliffStearns, Florida, Nancy Pelosi, Oklahoma, steroids

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