Jim DeMint: “I believe that the U.S. use of force in Kosovo was both lawful and the right thing to have done.”

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

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.