A couple days ago I mocked all the faux outrage generated by the announcement that Congress would work a couple four day weeks in a row.  This of course ran counter to the House Democrat's pledge to work five days a week and apparently the media got a good snicker out of the report that the House Leadership called off Monday's session because of the BCS national championship game.  I didn't think this was so earth-shattering seeing as Congress has only been putting in two day work weeks for several years now, but now apparently the whole story is a load of crap. 

Turns out that despite some bad jokes from Majority Leader Hoyer to the contrary, no sessions were scheduled for Monday so that House members of both parties could study all the legislation that will come up this week.  Hoyer said as much on the floor of the Congress last week and Nancy "What's the BCS mean?" Pelosi confirmed it during statements made to the media on Monday.  Evidently it only took a phone call to straighten it all out so its amazing how this story had legs earlier in the week. 

After years of bills rushed to the floor in the middle of the night containing provisions not originally voted on in committee, a better story would have probably been the new phenomenon of the House Leadership actually giving members time to read the bills they'll be voting on.