“We do need to stand up to him, but a shutdown, with all the pain it is bringing to the very people we want to help, is just not the place to do it. Will we be able to pass a bill next month extending the tax credits? It’s going to take some hard bargaining and is anything but a sure thing, but at least now there’s a chance where there was none before. And, in the meantime, the kids will be fed.”

— Sen. Angus King (I-ME), writing in the Portland Press Herald .

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