Interview With Joe Klein of the New Yorker
08/14/2000
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I'm prepared to just stay all day.
Clearly, this is no way to run the Government and deliver services and benefits to millions of Americans.
It is morally indefensible to hold needed Government services and hard-working Government employees hostage in a political battle.
Let us be clear: there was absolutely no excuse for this shutdown.