Jim DeMint: “We were told we had to vote for this TARP bill or the whole world economic system would collapse the next day.”

If school is not full speed in the fall, a lot of folks will have to deal with childcare they otherwise wouldn't.

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

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

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.