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Unidentified aides deliver pizza to House Democrats in a conference room around the hallway from the office of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 1.
Charles Dharapak / AP
A Marine sentry stands guard, indicating that President Obama is working in the West Wing of the White House, as discussions regarding the fiscal cliff continue on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 1.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., confer as they leave a closed-door meeting on the "fiscal cliff" bill passed by the Senate Monday night on Jan. 1.
Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., enters a Republican caucus meeting to discuss the terms of the fiscal cliff deal at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan 1.
Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
Republican House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chats with Aaron Schock, R-Ill., at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 1.
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting to discuss the legislation that will blunt the effects of the "fiscal cliff" before a rare New Year's Day session in Washington.
- GOP seeks path forward in House for fiscal deal
- Despite last-minute deal, more political drama likely on the way
Capitol Hill is full throttle ahead after missing the midnight deadline to avoid going over the so-called fiscal cliff. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
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Give me a break. Does anyone truly care what they are eating?
Oh, Heck yeah, I care. It's the difference between a $250 medium cheese-only pizza and a $500 medium sausage and pepperoni pizza! What say we don't feed them or let them have bathroom breaks until they reach a pork-free agreement.
It could all be resolved in about an hour.
They actually agreed on what to eat? True bipartisianship at work!
Ohhhh there working soooo hard...lol what a joke, these idiots have no idea what hard work is...
1 dollar's worth of cuts from the budget for every 47 dollars worth of spending. Shame shame shame.
Overtime? Are you kidding me? Don't these people realize when you are on salary there is no such thing as overtime?!?! Not to mention that these people take more days off per year than teachers!
Dear Congress,
Yes, cuts are in order. However before you touch your so called entitlement programs lets address some additional costs.....
1. Runaway spending by Home Land Security
2. Runaway cost of Public Sector Workers
3. Runaway costs of Foreign Aid
4. Runaway cost of Military Hardware
5. Runaway cost of CONGRESS
6. Runaway cost of EPA
7. Runaway cost of TSA
When this is done then we can talk about Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, and Unemployment…..
I have to bring my own lunch when I work late.
For truth. Sometimes it get so crazy I now pack enough calories to keep me running for two days minimum. These clowns should start losing like 1% of their pension, retirement benefits, salary every day this crap keeps dragging on but can earn 1% back for a month of good approval rating. Should dig out the guys that ran Abu Ghraib and sick them on the bums.
But you see Mike,you work late. This whole bunch is just learning what work is for the first time this session.
There should have been more spending cuts in this deal. All we got was higher taxes.
OMG!! Pelosi looks like one of the characters from Whoville.
She looks like she's had additional plastic surgery and it wasn't on her face. She annoys the crap out of me.
Whoville LOL I like that one.
Grow up Lil Bitches.
Calling all Teabaggers!
Calling all Teabaggers!
It's all going according to plan.
Soon our Socialist Utopia Paradise will be Realized on the Planet you once called Earth,
in the Country you once called America!
First we snuck in our stealth Muslim-Marxist candidate, Barack Obama, on in for a Second Term.
That was Easy once we spread all those Lies about Mitt Romney having his Secret Swiss Bank Accounts,
and Cayman Island Money-Laundering Shell Companies, and Not paying his Taxes for Ten (yes!10) years.
The voting Public believed our Lies and the "Rest is History" as they say!
Now that Barack is in us Socialists, I mean us Dems, are going to Take away all your Guns and Bibles
and Raise your Taxes to New Obscene levels.
We need the Money for our Free Obama I-phones.
I believe it was Jesus who said:
"Take according to their Means, and Give according to their Needs".
Very Bibical, is it not?
I can't wait till Barack stacks the Supreme Court with as many Socialists, Marxists, Leninists, and why not,
a couple of old-style Soviet Commies. and they're in for Life!
Hey Teabaggers!
Want to know One More Secret?
Of course you do!
Obama was really Born in Kenya!
Trump was Right about that one!
Too Late Now.
He's In for the Next Four very-very, Long-Long Years!
Ain't Life Grand?
Happy New Year!
Let the Party begin!
R.F.O. You're obiously suffering from too many hours in chat rooms. Please take your pills and unplug.
Is it something I said?
where do you get these free I Phones?? any sources?or do you just make sh-t up as you go??
RepublicansForObama, everything you just said insults the intelligence of the american people. Do you really think that the mass population is stupid enough to allow itself to become a socalist community. Just because some ideas of a person lean towards what people tag as socialist doesnt mean that is the intention as a whole.
Ignore. He is coming live from a sanitarium somewhere in Russia. This dude is smoking his own sh!t.. and I do mean the crap that comes out of his ahole.
Topped with Crow feet for many.....
I was really surprised it was just "pizza".... I was expecting it to be chateaubriand, lobster, and even some caviar thrown in.
At least it looks like a local pizza place.
on the pizza boxes you can make out the web address- looks like a local pizza joint that otherwise would have experienced a very slow pizza day on what should have been no federal business on a federal holiday- in a round about way, Congress provided some unintended economic stimulus for a DC pizza joint.
They needed the stimulus of late night heartburn to keep them motivated.
It's from Godfathers pizza at $999 a box. Cain has to make his money someway.
LOL, starbuck49! Thank heavens that fool isn't in office!! Godfather's is the absolute worst pizza anywhere!!
kats..... they are just pizza boxes.. but the caviar, steaks, and lobsters are inside those boxes. the liqour was brought in the back door by secret service without photogs.
look at the stickers on the box. 'we the pizza' and ' pizza lovers UNITE'. PLEASE. I hope they all get the runs.
I hope they're all pitching in a few bucks to cover the costs of THEIR dinner as that's what the rest of us in the real world have to do!
I guess thats why congress is always passing gas and getting no where.Fire them all.Use the savings for social security. That pizza money probably came out of the social security fund.
George,Good one.
They shouldn't be allowed to eat anything but Michelle-approved food. No pizza, no soda, no fried foods. Send in some steamed vegetables and tofu. This is not a slumber party, get to work and fix the mess you created.
They should be brown bagging their dinners.Michele Obama,the food police, won't be happy seeing all of that pizza.
they all look smug, they're enjoying the attention, having a themselves a real power-trip, move along, nothing to see here
Pizza is unhealthy though...........
I'm sure the Obamacare will cover in consequences.
They have a million times better health care than Obama Care and we pay for that the rest of there lives and there pay and not one republican says a word about it and most of these idiots are millionaires to start with..
Those are going to be some high priced pizzas. And we are paying for them! And how many of us can vote our own raises and how much!
Who is Pelosi?
Worked Overtime??? I you fn kidding me. They had a year to discuss this and held the country hostage from moving in any direction.
Are they supposed to look like they really worked hard to accomplish something. I am furious at the games that are being played. I voted out every incumbent last election regardless of political party and will do it once again unless Someone in Washington has the ability to work for the American people rather that the interest of the party. 536 people in Washington and only two opinions. whatever the one party wants is completely wrong for the country in the view of the other.
What a freaking joke!!! Yes I am yelling!!
Who offered to pay for the pizza and expense account it? Hopefully not Illinois.
What is both nauseating and laughable is the headlines states
they are working 'overtime'....when in fact, they each only
work 2 to 3 days per week. (Congress has already stated
in 2013 they are going to take off 269 days!!!) With 'high' salaries!!!
And a recent raise of 1% salary increase.
THIS mockery of our U.S Constitution and the despicable behavior
of Congress MUST be stopped...
I would click 'like' on your post a dozen times if i was allowed. How DARE they claim they are wot=rking OVERTIME... THEY ARE ON SALARY.... NO SUCH ANIMAL AS OVERTIME WHEN ON SALARY.
Hope you @!$%#ers enjoyed your pizzas paid for by the TAXPAYER dollars!
Congress had two years to work this out. Does anyone really feel sorry for them bacause they waited until the last minute to get a deal? Congress should work and not call it overtime when they work on a weekend or holiday.
They way the media puts it, the perception is that Congress works. Ha!
Oh, and because they work soooooo hard and get sooooooo much done, they voted themselves a 7% raise. Who in the working class got a 7$ raise in this economy. Congress is a joke.
I love this country and am embarrassed at the total dysfunction of our government.
Soooo! When do these meatballs stop politicing, and start governing? Even though this congress has the lowest score for bills passed, maybe that's not all bad, less damage to the nation! Maybe they could have used all of their down time to oversee exsisting departments activeties, which is what they are supose to do in the first place! We are on a down hill slid and it is our own fault.
I seriously don't think you can call it overtime when you didn't put int the regular time you were paid to do... yet robbed the american people of.
I hope somebody put a whole lot of metamucil in the dough.
I thought the raise was NOT approved. I hope to god it wasn't approved.
Overtime behind closed doors scheming to bamboozle Americans while eating taxpayer funded Pizzas from their automatic salary raises and expense accounts.
What frauds and jerks hiding from the public too guilty to reveal their ponzi schemes of more taxes and revenue for their greedy cronyism and lies.
Government idiots at their best......................
all with their suits on and looking freshly groomed....doesn't look like overtime to me. Clown car we call Congress is full and overflowing.
Let's try this
Petition the White House to pass Congressional Reform go to
https://
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pass-congressional-reform-amendment-constitution-united-states//tGjyPRFN
Big Yawn! Lazy bastards need to be FIRED