Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) suggests in a Houston Chronicle op-ed that it “may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our country” in the next round of budget negotiations “rather than plod along the path of Greece, Italy and Spain.”
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