Sentence examples for recess town from inspiring English sources

Ryan, who took substantial criticism from his southeast Wisconsin constituents in April after he introduced the Republicans' budget proposal, isn't the only member of congress whose August recess town hall-style meetings are strictly pay-per-view.

So here's some free advice to members of Congress: While you are enjoying your August recess and town hall meetings, instead of arguing about whether to have a public option, argue about the ground rules.

MIAMI -- The first big threat to the president's health-care reform package did not come during the fabled August 2009 recess of town-hall protests, or when the public option failed to pass the Senate, or when Scott Brown won his Senate seat in Massachusetts.

I know that tomorrow the Senate will take a break and leave town on recess for two weeks.

has been a vocal critic of his fellow lawmakers for leaving town for recess without first debating and voting to authorize the bombing of the Islamic State.

Congress was supposed to pass a bill to improve trade relations with Russia before it left town for summer recess.

Mr. Kerry has said he wants his committee to vote on the treaty before the Senate leaves town for summer recess, possibly Aug. 3 or 4. That would mean a fall floor debate in the midst of the campaign or perhaps during a postelection lame duck session.

So Obama waited, appointing Cordray as well as three members of the National Labor Relations Board when Congress left town on winter recess.

Heading home during legislative breaks is nothing new, but this year most Republicans are foregoing a hallowed recess tradition: holding in-person town halls in which lawmakers take questions from constituents in a high school gym, local restaurant, or college classroom.

Democrats have been largely supportive of approving the funding request from Obama, and most say it should be done before the August recess, when members will leave town for more than a month.

Their goal -- recently outlined by an influential lobbyist as "delay" then "kill" -- is apparent: Having successfully delayed a vote until after the August recess, lobbyists are seizing on town halls to ambush lawmakers in an attempt to fool them and the greater public into thinking there is wide opposition to health care reform.