Jim DeMint: “We have got to keep our focus on passenger safety, but there are a lot of strong interests within the system.”

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.

Voting by proxy, is this what was intended by the Founders, the Framers of our Constitution?

Senator DeMint says let's use the Federal Government as an exemplar for how to reopen.

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.