WASHINGTON – On the ninth day of the federal government shutdown, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-6th District, took aim at Minnesota’s Democratic senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith.

At a GOP leadership press conference, which House Republicans decided this week to hold every morning, Emmer, the Majority Whip, said Klobuchar and Smith have voted six times “to shut the government down, or keep it shut down.”

With House Speaker Mike Johnson nodding soberly at his side, Emmer said the Democratic senators “have voted six times against paying our troops, six times against paying the 13,000 National Guardsmen who are showing up to work without receiving a paycheck.”

The U.S. Senate has rejected a House GOP short-term spending bill that would fund the federal government until Nov. 21. Although the GOP h

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