John Sarbanes: “I wish to underscore one point because I think it tends to get overlooked. There is a tendency to think of this in terms…”

“I wish to underscore one point because I think it tends to get overlooked. There is a tendency to think of this in terms of the Federal employees who are not working. That is a very important aspect of it. But by not working, they are not providing services that are needed by the private sector. So it is having an impact, a far-reaching impact through our economy and through our country. In other words, people who want passports are not able to get those passports. You have people who planned trips for years. You have had business reasons to take such trips. Grants by the NIH have been put on the shelf, and so forth and so on.”