Attendance Optional? Senate Erases Pay Rule

By John McArdle
Roll Call Staff
June 27, 2005

As some party leaders are cracking down on absenteeism among their respective rank and file, a provision included in the Senate version of the legislative branch appropriations bill passed out of committee last week strangely enough makes it financially easier for Members to miss work.



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