The Senate is scheduled to walk out the door in early August and not come back until the middle of September.
Five weeks. Gone.
And what did they finish before booking the vacation?
Nothing.
The House has sent the SAVE America Act over again and again. The Senate has passed it zero times. Not once.
President Trump said Monday that John Thune should not let the Senate leave town until that bill is done.
Mike Lee says he will not give his consent to recess and wants a roll call vote. Rick Scott says he will vote to stay in session. Ashley Moody, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, and Jim Banks have said the same thing.
Leadership's answer is that the votes are not there, so why bother trying.
Think about what that excuse actually means.
You do not get to campaign for six years on secure elections, proof of citizenship to register, and photo ID to vote, and then shrug at the first sign of resistance and roll out for a five-week holiday.
If a working American told his boss the job was too hard and ...

Thomas Pate Boone, shown here, was born in Greenvine, Texas, in 1887. Pate grew to manhood in the upper reaches of the Brazos River Valley as a cowhand, blacksmith, and spur maker. He took part in some of the last big roundups in the Pecos River Valley where he got the nickname "Pecos Pate." Settling in the Monument Springs area of the New Mexico Territory with his father Clate (J.P.) and brother Bob, he was starved out by the great drought of 1903. Arriving back in Texas with nothing but a worthless string of wild New Mexican ponies, Pecos Pate and his sons set about to break the ponies for riding horses.
They quickly found that people would pay to see them work. That was how the Boone Boys Wild West Show was born. For the next 25 years, their show would travel the southern plains and Arkansas Basin, entertaining thousands of new settlers who had arrived too late for the real Wild West. Pecos Pate died in Christoval, Texas, in 1980 at the age of 92.