Senate Chaplain Barry Black offered a pointed prayer Monday and said he hoped lawmakers would remember that “no gold medal was awarded” for breaking shutdown records.
“Eternal God, our King, when our children and grandchildren want to know what we were doing in the 119th Congress during the famous shutdown, will we not have to answer: ‘I helped set a new record for keeping the government shut down,’ ‘I failed to appeal to the better angels of my nature,’ ‘I forgot Matthew 7:12, which says, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do you.’ with you Do,” Black said on the Senate floor Monday.
He said, “This is the essence of all that is taught in the Law and the Prophets. May God remind our lawmakers that no gold medal is given for breaking shutdown records, but a crown of righteousness is given to those who care for the lost.”
Both Democratic and Republican strategists and pollsters have seen this Government shutdown as liabilities rise For both sides of the aisle, Congress leaders are likely to be pushed to find a way out of the situation soon.
largest federal labor government The union has called for ending the strike. On Monday, Everett Kelly, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said now is “the time” for Congress to immediately advance a clean continuing resolution (CR) to open the government.
“No half measures, and no sportsmanship,” Kelly said. “Put every federal employee back to work with full pay today.
According to its website, AFGE represents more than 800,000 workers in “virtually every” federal government agency.
