Senate makes Thursday exit despite Reid’s vow of ‘no weekends off’

The Senate adjourned for the weekend on Thursday despite Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) vow that there would be “no weekends off” for the chamber in September.

Before the August recess, Reid said senators would be working around the clock in the fall to finish unfinished business.

“There will be no weekends off,” Reid said last month.

But that threat proved empty on Thursday, as the Senate adjourned at 4 p.m.

{mosads}Senators are waiting for the House to send them a CR, but President Obama’s request to include funding to train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has delayed the House vote until early next week.

Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic proposal to amend the Constitution to place limits on campaign financing. GOP senators called the proposal a political stunt aimed at ginning up the liberal base.

Reid has routinely threatened weekend work during his time as majority leader, partly as a way to force action on legislation, but the chamber almost always wraps up its work by Thursday afternoon.

The Democratic leader has said he wants to adjourn for election campaigning by Sept. 23 — before the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashana.