The House Gym Committee Chairman wants to refurbish the House Members gym to the tune of $8,000,000.
The House of Reps gym is lesser quality than their staffers’ facility. Now a Democrat Congressman wants to spend $8 million for improvements on the members gym .
After dueling with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) to pass a renewable energy bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faces a wrestling match with another rogue chairman. And this one can bench-press 265 pounds.
Pelosi is set to square off against Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), the power-lifting chairman of the House gym committee.
Abercrombie is touting his efforts to secure funding in the legislative branch spending bill to begin an estimated $8 million renovation of the House gym. The project is personally important to Abercrombie, who sets a yearly goal to bench-press 200 pounds more than his age, now 69.
Pelosi and other Democratic leaders are not eager for a multimillion-dollar renovation of the congressional members-only gym to be one of the first accomplishments of the Democratic majority. They worry that freshman Democrats could be attacked on the campaign trail next year for approving a fancy new gym for themselves after winning office.
Democratic leaders held a special meeting with Abercrombie earlier this year to tell him that now is not the time for a new House gym and also instructed him not to mention the issue to reporters, according to Democratic sources
But Abercrombie hasn’t stopped talking about it. He insists that the gym needs renovating and is pushing for federal money to finance a redesign.
Abercrombie showed last week that he’s not afraid to confront his leadership. Angered by a last-minute discovery that leaders would not schedule a floor vote on an Iraq bill he sponsored, Abercrombie introduced a motion to adjourn the House in protest, a rare tactic for a member of the majority to wield against his leaders. Abercrombie was the only Democrat to vote for the motion.
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This is news to me, there is a House Gym Committee?
I can’t afford Gold’s Gym and these bastards aren’t happy with their existing free facilities supplied to them by the taxpayers?
Suggestion: Everyone use the staffers’ gym and close the members’ gym.
Term limits is the answer.
Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats claimed that they’re draining the swamp. All we have left to do now is clean the sewer.
This is a midweek OTB August 8-9, 2007.
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