it s completely unnecessary. i was talking to some of the guards at the capitol as i was coming in, the capitol police. they said well, we have to be here tomorrow, but we don t know, we re not going to get paid until after the shut down is over. we re talking about gs-2, gs-3. people who make 20, 30, maybe $40,000 every year, and these people are going to be furloughed? they re not going to get paid up to 600,000 people? this is a disaster for them. and you were talking about the military, rachel, about 72% of the civilians that work for the intelligence community are going to be furloughed. you know who s going to be furloughed? we re not going to be able to supply the kind of personal protection for diplomats overseas in dangerous situations. does that raise the benghazi
government is going to stay open, it absolutely makes no sense. harry reid, for better or worse, said we re not going to have a conference with a gun pointed at our head. so that s not that s simply not going to happen. you know the thing breaking my heart tonight, this is completely unnecessary. it is completely unnecessary. i was talking to some of the guards at the capitol as i was coming in, the capitol police. they said, well, we have to be here tomorrow, but we don t know we re not going to get paid until after the shutdown is over. we re talking about gs-2, gs-3. people who make 20, 30, maybe $40,000 every year and these people are going to be furloughed. they are not going to get paid, up to 600,000 people? this is a disaster for them. you were talking about the military, rachel, about 72% of the civilians who work for the