Are members of Congress playing solitaire in this picture? Several widely circulated emails claim it shows a couple members of Congress playing solitaire during the lenghty debate over health care reform.
"It seems to me that if all we are doing is paying these congressmen and women a gigantic salary to sit in congressional session and play solitaire or whatever, it's time to bring most of them back home by replacement. Democrats, Republicans, Independents - it makes no difference. The bills they're passing by playing solitaire instead of voting for us are taking away our freedoms with ever key stroke."
Wrong.
The 2009 photo actually shows two members of Connecticut's state legislature playing solitaire in Hartford's Hall of the House.