Jim DeMint: “will we respond or will we make the same mistakes again?”

We applaud the leadership shown by Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Hutchison, Senator Kerry, Senator DeMint and other Members of the Committee.

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

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

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