But Entergy plans to spend more, to raise the number of operators to about 70, because company executives believe that having a few extra would improve operations and make shutdowns rarer and shorter.
House members appearing after Boehner repeated the word of the day, "fairness," and did their best to make the shutdown feel worth it.
For more than a week, he and his co-workers have maintained a round-the-clock stakeout in front of the gates of the midsize factory in an industrial district just outside Milan, fearful that management might try to remove the machinery and make the shutdown irrevocable.
While the MTA is considering plans for making the shutdown as manageable as possible, we've got some suggestions on how to cross the hazardous East River once the shutdown begins.
Stock markets fell worldwide on Monday as political disagreements in Washington made a shutdown on Monday night increasingly likely.
In fact, many House Republicans acknowledged that they expected the Senate to reject the House's provisions, making a shutdown all but assured.
As might be expected, Jon Stewart has made the shutdown the focus of his political satire on "The Daily Show" with two nights of special themes.
Making the shutdown less painful for 800,000 federal employees will encourage Congress and the White House to extend it even longer, driving up the cost, said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Boehner's resignation makes a shutdown less likely: freed of the obligation to pander to the right, he and his colleagues in the G.O.P. leadership will probably push through a funding bill with Democratic support next week.
But they acted like a bunch of spoiled rich kids who couldn't get their way and made the shutdown the only thing anyone talked about.
-But the most important economic impact of the shutdown is one that could go either way: does the shutdown make default on the national debt more likely or less likely?
