Work Ethic

(Fox News) - Remember a year ago when leaders of the new Democratic majority in the House pledged 5-day work weeks and an end to what incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the Tuesday-through-Thursday "drive-by Congress"? Those full work weeks did not regularly materialize this year and now The Politico reports they have been all but abandoned.

A 2008 calendar distributed to congressional offices shows only three 5-day weeks are scheduled next year. Four-day work weeks will be the norm instead.

Republicans say this is another broken promise. But a spokeswoman for Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says the new calendar still calls for more days in session than during the last Republican-led Congress.