midnight, as you said, they would stay that way for at least 30 hours, maybe longer. now, the government has done this before, the longest and, perhaps, most notable shutdown began on this day 15 years ago and lasted all the way until january 6, 1996, and when that happened, here s some of what went on. the national institutes of health stopped taking new patients, the c.d.c. stopped disease surveillance. more than 3500 bankruptcy cases were suspended. they stopped recruiting and testing federal law enforcement officials including 400 border patrol agents. the atf had major delays in processing applications for alcohol and tobacco and firearms. 368 sites maintained by the national parks service closed. that affected seven million visitors and cost surrounding areas over $14 million a day. also 200,000 applications by americans for passports had to be shelved and services given to
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name of andrew lewis has come up with something called the subs and take a look at it. it s part garter. part suspenders and that way it gives you kind of a professional look as half of your underpants is sticking out. oh, please! why not just pull your pants up. please, gretchen! so you re going to spend $30 to make sure your pants don t what about getting pants that come up to your waist. you could have taken a shot of me this weekend. that s where my pants were, right around my hips. no, i m at work. i m a totally different person when i m home. but i mean, it s garters and suspenders, half suspenders and garters with larry king moving on, maybe he could get an endorsement bill. homage to larry. benny hill is coming over to auto apierce morgan. whatever. i know who benny hill is. there you go. is that a good idea? to invest $30 more so your pants don t fall down? you now see this contraption. let us know. e-mail us. do you want to see brian s underwear? e
visitors and cost surrounding areas about $14 million a day. also, anybody trying to come to or leave america while the government was closed for business had a tough time. that s because 200,000 american applications for passports were put on the shelf. that s on top of 20,000 to 30,000 delayed applications for visas by foreigners that wanted to come here. all the stuff that i detailed, that s according to a report by the congressional research service and you can see that it details a major lifestyle change for american citizens if the government shuts down two days from now. gretchen? peter doocy live for us in d.c. thank you very much. you know, the crazy thing about this is all the senate would have to do would be just simply to go along with what the house has already passed. they ve passed a bill that would continue to run the federal government through february. but instead, what the senate wants is what the senate wants. and the senate wants to pass this great big pork-fil
they need to be eliminated. a lot of screwy things we need to eliminate. that s an understatement. john mccain who has looked through a lot of the pages and has spotted all sorts of screwy things in it is going to be joining us at 8:15 this morning. you don t want to miss that. the president has not said a word. he could come out in the last minute and say, hey, you know what? i m wanot going to support this. the alternative would be for him to say you got to take the house version which a number of republicans and democrats say is a good thing because the house version says, ok, it s a temporary thing until february. and that, of course, is when more republicans come in and that is when they can actually eyeball and see what s in this thing. he also kind of has somebody behind his back saying he doesn t have to do this. remember, they voted on earmarks a couple of weeks ago and it didn t pass. even after the november elections, that bill did not pass. let s talk about this rig