"Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces"

WaPo:

Every office along the second floor of the Longworth House Office Building looks welcoming, flags lined up nicely, most with visitor sign-in logs out front.

Except for the one where the plaque out front reads, “Representative Adelita S. Grijalva, Arizona” — but the doors are locked, with newspapers and internal mail piling up out front.

Grijalva’s (D)offices — both in Washington and back in her district — are closed, leaving the constituents of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District without representation or a single staffer who can answer questions as the government shutdown stretches into its second week.

The phone lines do not even have a courtesy message telling constituents how to reach out to Arizona’s senators for help. The voice answering the phone in the Tucson office is a