Jim DeMint: “I've got a letter from candidate Barack Obama to John Gage, promising to provide collective bargaining benefits.”

Certainly, the Federal Government needs to be an example everywhere we can.

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

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.