Similarly, work on a planned launch late this year of an unmanned spacecraft to orbit around Mars and study its atmosphere was given an "emergency exception" to the shutdown on the grounds that it will be needed to relay communications from two unmanned vehicles already on the surface of Mars.
Will a shutdown give a new meaning to the phrase "trash talking"?
Why have you not given orders for a shutdown till this review is complete?
He did not see the federal shutdown as giving a political edge to either candidate.
At the mention of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his leading role in the shutdown, Shields gave a slight grimace.
In the lead up to the shutdown, Cruz gave a 21-hour speech on the Senate floor to protest the funding of the Affordable Care Act, during which he recited Dr. Seuss Green Eggss and Ham.
They came to see the statue on Saturday and were told to come back the next day — which, given the shutdown, they considered a victory.
If we just give shutdown a chance, we might all realize that what we need is more of the government shutdown, not less.
Let's unpack this rhetoric, since it's wholly representative of the coverage that conservative media has given the shutdown.
They also said the term cold shutdown might give an exaggerated impression of stability to severely damaged reactors with fuel cores that have not only melted down, but melted through the inner containment vessels and bored into the floor of their concrete outer containment structures.
