(Sheldon Alberts — Postmedia News/Montreal Gazette)
Shutdown looms; Perimeter talks could be affected
Even at the best of
times on Capitol Hill, Senator Barbara Mikulski is not the cheeriest of
lawmakers. But the looming prospect of a U.S. federal government
shutdown put Mikulski, a fifthterm Maryland Democrat, in an especially foul
mood when she stood Wednesday to address a nearly empty Senate chamber. Waving her finger and demanding that someone "pay attention," Mikulski warned her colleagues voters would punish the lot of them if they let the government go dark... Read more here.
