Risch: Washington’s A ‘Ghost Town’

The federal government has just about ground to a halt in the nation’s capital, where both the House and Senate have given up on getting anything done in the midst of two record-breaking snowstorms. “It is like a ghost town around here,” said Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, who walked from his home near downtown Washington to his office on Capitol Hill. “I walked from my apartment this morning and there weren’t even taxis on the street. In the building where my office is located very few people showed up for work, but we do have some staff in my office answering the phones”/ Erika Bolstad , Idaho Statesman. More here .

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Question: Anyone feeling guilty that we’ve experiencing the mildest of Inland Northwest winters while U.S. Sen. Jim Risch and others are snowbound on the East Coast?