House GOP parties at Boner's event while forcing clerk to read legislation aloud

And you certainly would not hear this reported on the news...

CQ Politics:

A handful of House Republicans forced a clerk to read much of a 54-page motion aloud to a nearly empty chamber Thursday evening as their GOP colleagues escaped to attend an annual "beach party" thrown by Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio.

After about half an hour, they withdrew the first motion and offered a second one, prolonging the process to roughly 45 minutes.

A Boehner spokesman said in an e-mail that he was "headed down now" to the party at Cantina Marina as the clerk labored to finish a task that is typically dispensed with in seconds by unanimous consent.