In many ways, Congress is like high school. You’ve got your different houses, a new freshman class (every two years), cliques, and, of course, summer vacation (a.k.a. the August recess). It starts this week for the Senate, and began last week for the House.

Many members of Congress will use part of the time to actually go on vacation and spend time with family and friends they don’t get to see much as the commute back and forth to Washington, D.C. But much of the delegation’s time will be spent in Colorado, meeting with constituents, interest groups and local leaders to talk policy and what they’ve been doing on the hill.

We checked in with the Colorado delegation and this is what they had to say about their recess plans.

Sen. Michael Bennet