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Thank you for working overtime for us!

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Amazing that they got to this point without a shutdown. The suspension of rules usage, gaetz trying to speak, magic minute, dude alarm...what a day! Thank you for capturing all of it!

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I find it refreshing to see some bipartisanship for a change. It shouldn't be so rate, especially when, with the current makeup of Congress, it's dictated by simple math.

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So in the end they approved essentially the same deal they had made to extend the debt ceiling, and we get to do it all again before Thanksgiving. Maybe if they just tried living up their previous deals we could be saved all this drama.

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Thank you Jamie

When recounting the days events, my buddy asked “how do you know these things?”

I told him “Ifollow Jamie Dupree”

Sharing this. Hopefully you’ll get another subscriber

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Jamie, do you think changing the fiscal year to correspond with the legislative/electoral calendar might help avoid this madness? It seems to me CRs were not needed for years, but they took off some time in the nineties and the "chicken" game gets worse every time it comes around.

Government shutdowns are like driving drunk and speeding without a seat-belt.

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Haven’t heard much from Rep. Massie in reports regarding the budget and shutdown. Is he even a member of this Freedom Caucus? He was one of the nays today, but where does he fit in to all this, now that he is on the rules committee?

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And you were worried…

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Maybe one day Congress will pass a law that takes away the pay of members of Congress during a shutdown. We can only hope

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