Daily Archives: October 2, 2013

How Did We End Up With Another Government Shutdown Republicans Said They Didn’t Want?

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By Scott Lilly – It’s almost unbelievable that only 18 years after the disastrous shutdown of 1995, the federal government shutdown again. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, presented the House floor on Saturday with the legislation that sealed the country’s fate—legislation that he and his party’s top leadership argued against for…