Bennie Thompson: “Thank you Chairman Bilirakis for convening this important hearing on the frontlines of hurricane response.”

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.

The department was using flat out wrong anti-union talking points.

That kind of talent, you just don't find it every day.