You were chief of staff during the last shutdown in 19951996. What was that like . It was really tough. It was very hard and required us to do a lot of planning prior and cleanup. My favorite story if i can tell you the story from it. Iere was a group of asians think indonesian who came to visit reed hundt and i. They had to walk up eight flights of stairs because he elevate elevator was not work. They were out of breath and they said, what the heck is going on . Reed said the legislative branch decided to shut off the executive branch. They started laughing. They said not country it is the opposite. A message. Lly is the world thinks were crazy when we do things like this. The market things we are crazy. It has a longterm effect on the economy which is very negative. 38harold furchtgottroth, employees of the fcc were considered essential for this past shutdown. Lostdoes the work that got in this 16 days . There were several activities that the commission does that was not done. 1700 o