yea because every single congressmen and congresswomen and all of their family members they all live in washington dc right..? its not like they can just walk down a block to their house and celebrate holiday and walk right back to work the next morning.. its not just 2 days.. they take planes and there are flight delays all the time and its not scheduled so that a senator is going to have to arrive in his/her home state in the morning and get back on the plane that same evening so that they will barely have any family time..