Bennie Thompson: “As a former volunteer firefighter, I know that operable and interoperable communications are essential to ensuring that…”

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.

These nitwits are at it again.