We're Closed? How Government Shutdowns Came To Be

CONNIE CASS, Rockford Register Star
Mon, 09/30/2013 - 6:02am

WASHINGTON — OK, gridlocked politicians we're used to. But why padlock the Statue of Liberty?

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