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This is pretty hilarious. When Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) found out that the Dems were planning on reinstating a 5 day work week for Congress, here's what he had to say:

“Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.”

But yesterday, during the debate over raising the minimum wage, here's what he had to say:

If the Democrat Party truly wanted to take on poverty, they would have to say what is the relationship between marriage and the poverty level and between hours worked and the poverty level, because the truth of the matter is, if people end poverty, many of them would marry and work 40 hours a week, they would be out of poverty.

Never mind for the moment that working a full-time minimum wage job still leaves you with an income level below the poverty line...