Jim DeMint: “We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.”

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

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

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

His proposal was so outlandish, I don't think we should go back to the table until he puts something there that we can work with.