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With its vote on paying federal workers, Congress just ducked accountability

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Published January 16, 2019 5:00am ET
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With its vote on paying federal workers, Congress just ducked accountability
A worker cleans the floors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, which has been impacted by the partial federal government shutdown at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. | (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

Congressmen who loath accountability surely heeded his advice this week when drafting S. 24 to deal with the government shutdown crisis.

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