Obamabots protest federal government shutdown Representative Scott Garrett Newton office?
“The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme Court. No part of government has the right to shut down the government because they don’t like one law that has been legitimately enacted by all three branches of government.”
Cathy Bao Bean Frelinghuysen Township
Well Cathy the real question is why is congress and their staffs exempt ,most government employees are exempt , business got a one year delay , and Unions got waivers from the law??? Law of the land for who exactly??? the staff of the Ridgewood blog
NEWTON — Between 40 and 50 people gathered outside the office of Representative Scott Garrett (R-5 District) in Newton on Friday evening, Oct. 4. They were protesting the federal government shutdown and calling on the Congress to pass a continuing resolution to reopen the government without conditions.
Congressman Garrett has been the most outspoken of New Jersey’s congressional delegation in support of linking a continuing resolution to repeal or delay of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2010.
The people gathered on the sidewalk on Spring St. in Newton disagreed with Garrett’s position and demanded that Congress pass a “clean C.R.,” as it is called in Washington parlance.
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If Garrett’s office was shut and no work was getting done, would it look any different?
Republicans did not shut down the government. They sent a bill funding every part of the government except for Obamacare. Democrats rejected that so it is the Democrats who shut down the government because one program was not funded. The House controls what our taxes get spent on. The House has a right to refuse to fund something that most Americans do not want and that was passed by Democrats using tricks to avoid the fact that Mass. had just sent a Republican to the Senate in Ted Kennedy’s seat to stop Obamacare. The outrage from Democrats about what is fair and unfair now is laughable.
Nice try Mayor Aronsohn, but you are not getting that seat in Congress.
All of the Congress should be losing their pay checks and all of their offices should be closed maybe they would then learn to work together.