"During the shutdown, approximately 800,000 federal employees were indefinitely furloughed, and another 1.3 million were required to report to work without known payment dates. Only those government services deemed "excepted" under the Antideficiency Act were continued; and only those employees deemed "excepted" continued to report to work.^[2] The previous U.S. federal government shutdown was in <a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdowns_of_1995%E2%80%9396' title="United States federal government shutdowns of 1995–96">1995–96</a>.^[3]^[4] The 16-day-long shutdown of October 2013 was the third-longest government shutdown in U.S. history, after the 18-day shutdown in 1978 and the 21-day 1995–96 shutdown."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ag...wn_of_2013

 

 

Who gives a flip about these commies, right?   LOL, you guys are crazy sometimes...  Good for Ted Cruz for making sure that right towards the beginning of the holiday season a paycheck was lost for a few million american workers based on a political game of chicken he knew he couldn't win.  But heck, it sure did help him get his name out there in the pre-launch towards a presidential campaign.  So, yeah, he's a real American that has the best interest of his fellow citizens himself in mind.   :whistling:

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