<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7e757d36-f938-4ebd-8fb2-43b8c3a4e87f/8DD93B81-6A0F-4979-8B36-A80D979D5FD3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/" style="font-size: 11px;">thinkprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/"><H2 class="title">GOP congressmen quit because of five-day work week.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/"><P>Nine Republican congressmen have so far announced that they will not be running for re-election. One of those lawmakers, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL), complained “that the <A href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6249.html">Democrats’ new five-day workweek</A>” is part of the reason they’re all retiring:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/"><P><IMG class="imgright" alt="lahood4.gif" src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/lahood4.gif" /> “<STRONG>I do think the schedule and the flying is a huge pain for people</STRONG>, particularly those who are from the Midwest or even further West,” he said, adding that <STRONG>it’s “probably the worst part of the job</STRONG>.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/"><P>“I think that has played into these retirement announcements,” said the seven-term congressman from Peoria.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/"><P>In Dec. 2006, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) also griped about having to work five days each week, stating, “Marriages suffer. <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/07/kingston-congress/">The Democrats could care less about families</A> — that’s what this says.”  <SPAN class="thinkfastlinks"> 5:59 pm | <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/gop-congressmen-quit-because-of-five-day-work-week/#comments">Comment</A> (34)</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8DD93B81-6A0F-4979-8B36-A80D979D5FD3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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