By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Compromise legislation approved in the United States Senate to end the federal government shutdown has the support of northern Missouri Congressman Sam Graves, a Republican.
“I’m going to support the compromise that the Senate is sending over. I’m glad it’s finally over. You know, in a shutdown like this, nobody wins. Republicans don’t win. Democrats don’t win. And it’s extraordinarily frustrating,” Graves tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “And who loses is the American public.”
Graves, though, does have one concern about the House considering the Senate bill.
“We have the votes in the House on the Republican side to pass it, but I think we’ll get, it will be bipartisan, I really do,” Graves says. “The biggest problem to be quite honest with you is everyone coming back and how the flight delays and the cancelations are going to affect people being on the floor. That’s going to be a bigger problem than anything else.”
Graves doesn’t expect it to take long for the federal government to become fully operational again once the legislature is signed.
“The government will get up and running right away. It will take a little bit longer for our flight service to get back to normal. The airlines have got to ramp back up again,” Graves says. “I think it will be pretty much back to normal by the holiday season, by Thanksgiving.”
Graves does expect some Democrats to vote for the measure.
If the House approves the measure, it would go to President Trump who has indicated he will sign it.
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