The ways in which this shutdown is impacting people in #MI08 underscores the need to fulfill our fundamental responsibility as lawmakers to keep the government functioning.
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Today is the 15th day of the government shutdown — and despite our vote on Thursday night to re-open the government, the Senate has yet to take action.
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The day before I was sworn in, I spoke directly with a constituent from Brighton who called our office — she is a
@uscensusbureau employee who had not received thorough information on what the shutdown would mean for her pay & work schedule.pic.twitter.com/VGR6JB5ll7
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We have been working with Census officials to ensure that employees in our district get all available information, as they face the financial uncertainty produced by this shutdown.
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They are not taking action because the Democrats passed a partisan bill and then parade around like they are in the right by passing something. Just more deception from a morally bankrupt political system. This system is going to demand your obedience since it bought your seat.
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But they passed a bill that was passed earlier in the Republican-led Senate. It is not a partisan bill - it is very bipartisan in terms of how it was written, and then was passed in similar forms in both chambers (albeit before and then after the shutdown).
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Complicity is the word of the decade
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Ni las tomará, el Partido Republicano está preso del demente
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