MEDIA ADVISORY:
Senators Hold Press Conference Calling For Congress To Work Through August Recess
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators David Perdue (R-GA), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Kennedy (R-LA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Luther Strange (R-AL) will hold a press conference on their effort to cancel or truncate the Senate’s scheduled August state work period if meaningful progress has not been made on the following five priorities: fixing health care, funding the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, passing a budget resolution, and improving our tax code.
Tuesday, July 11
12:00 p.m. ET
U.S. Senate Press Gallery
S-325 of the U.S. Capitol
View livestream on Senator Perdue’s YouTube channel here.
** U.S. Senate Radio and Television Correspondents Gallery credentials are required to attend this event. Please RSVP to Lesley_Fulop@perdue.senate.gov.
In case you missed it: The senators outlined their request in a letter sent to Leader McConnell on Friday, June 30. Senator Perdue also wrote an op-ed on the need to cancel August recess in the Daily Signal.
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Senator Perdue is the only Fortune 500 CEO in Congress and is serving his first term in the United States Senate, where he represents Georgia on the Armed Services, Banking, Budget, and Agriculture Committees.
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Sen. Lee Welcomes August Work
WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Tuesday after it was announced the first two weeks of August recess had been cancelled:
“The American people elected us to govern, and when our ability to govern is thwarted by artificially imposed deadlines it doesn’t serve anyone’s interest,” Sen. Lee said. “We have an enormous amount of work to do, and whether you are on the left, right, or in the middle, it is difficult to dispute the fact that there is a lot that needs to be done. It just doesn’t make any sense to take the month of August off, and that is why I welcome leadership’s decision to cancel the first two week of the planned August break.”
An electronic version of this release can be found here.
