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Brian Fitzpatrick: “I sure hope so, Anderson, because the stakes are awfully high and I lived through a government shutdown as an FBI agent…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2019
I sure hope so, Anderson, because the stakes are awfully high and I lived through a government shutdown as an FBI agent back in 2013, and saw how devastating and detrimental it is, you know, having -- as a supervisor, having to make decisions on essential versus nonessential employees, and then the FBI, everybody's essential professional staff getting furloughed right in the middle of investigations, it's not a good situation.
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Brian Fitzpatrick
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Congressman Fitzpatrick expresses concern about the impact of the government shutdown based on his past experience.

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