Just so you all understand, when the government shuts down, and it happens more often than you hear about, the federal employees do not have to show up for work, and when the shut down is solved they all get their full pay. I know this because my better half worked for the federal government for 35 yrs and this is true. So when a congress person suggest that they propose a bill to not pay them, it is pretty ingenuous. This whole thing is pure political BS. One party trying to insert language into the spending bill that has not been approved by the finance committee that should be a stand alone bill, and the other party saying lets approve the spending plan and work on this as a separate bill.

Its you money. see how they spend it.