Bush apologizes to the French about workweek joke

Jeb Bush has apologized for his joke about the French workweek during last week's debate.

“I made the mistake of saying that the Congress operates on a French workweek,” Bush told reporters Wednesday in New Hampshire. “I really did a disservice to the French."

Bush made the crack while criticizing Marco Rubio for missing votes in the Senate, telling his rival:  "What is it, like a French workweek?"

The comment drew criticism itself from French officials.

Bush communications director Tim Miller: “My inbox was full of French journalists."

From Time magazine:

"Speaking to reporters aboard his campaign bus on the first leg of a three-day swing through New Hampshire, Bush once again criticized congressional lawmakers for working a three-day week, saying lawmakers have over-promised and under-delivered to the American people in successive elections. But the GOP presidential hopeful acknowledged he was wrong to criticize the French when he was trying to highlight rival Marco Rubio’s poor voting record in the Senate.