Each Dec Schumer puts out schedule for Senate I set Grassley family reunion based on schedule. For 2nd yr in row I won’t be at reunion I’m in DC to fight Dems irresponsible tax&spend bill. Need a Republican majority to hv schedule we can count on & A RESPONSIBLE FISCAL AGENDA
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) August 5, 2022
Poor Chuck Grassley. The 88-year-old Iowa Republican doesn’t like that his job as one of the 100 members of the Senate gets in the way of his social schedule. The senior GOP Senator just wants to take time off to spend with his family, but the gosh-darn business of running the most powerful country on Earth is getting in the way. He sits in a chamber that meets just 190 days, roughly, every year; that’s just 38 work weeks. He doesn’t have to campaign, given his status as a fossil in a safe Red state. The only thing he has to do is vote every once in awhile to support Republican efforts to fuck everything up.
If he wants to spend more time with his family, perhaps he should retire. Or better yet, just leave the Senate one Republican short. He won’t have to worry about missing his reunion, and Democrats can get shit done.