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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen Schatz lights up the GOP House from the Senate floor: "GET BACK TO WORK"
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Sen Schatz lights up the GOP House from the Senate floor: "GET BACK TO WORK" (Original Post)
Ruby the Liberal
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usonian
(21,339 posts)1. Because EPSTEIN
Don't want to deal with it.
Wild blueberry
(7,950 posts)2. Hear, hear!
Thank you.
Champp
(2,294 posts)3. Hey Republicans: get off your fluffy billionaire butts and do your job
They are all out playing golf or committing adultery somewhere - that's your Republican party: a corrupt lazy mess.
Champp
(2,294 posts)4. Day 8 of shutdown. Day 19 of G.O.P. vacation
Wow - does that tell the story, or what.
Champp
(2,294 posts)5. Are all the Republicans vacationing in Cancun with conman Teddy C.?
Asking for the people getting their food aid cut.
Trueblue Texan
(3,860 posts)6. There really was no reason to shut down Congress...
...the government might be shut down but members of Congress are still being paid. Why are they sitting on their asses and not addressing the problems that shut down the government. This is what I asked of my congress people when I called and emailed.
Mossfern
(4,431 posts)8. Agreed!
What about those government workers who are furloughed and still have to work full time without pay?
Congress is NOT royalty, nor is the Republican Party the House of Lords.
flashman13
(1,625 posts)7. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. Good job Sen. Schatz.

Cha
(314,924 posts)9. Mahalo, Sen Schatz!
TY!