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Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.
The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.
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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 07 2019, @12:15PM (3 children)
But, how do we impeach all of congress?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by epitaxial on Monday January 07 2019, @02:17PM (2 children)
Its called voting. Never vote for the incumbent.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Monday January 07 2019, @04:38PM
The problem is that voting for the only other party likely to win is only a small improvement. This feature is inherent in the "plurality wins" electoral system. Other systems have their own problems, but plurality wins was only chosen because the monarchists had no chance of winning, and the alternatives weren't clear. That said, the original constitution left most power to the states, who each had their own constitution. Most power definitely included the right to levy taxes, and pay for a standing army. So as originally designed the flaw was less important.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:03PM
That doesn't help. The "problem" is that there is a big country with diverse interests. People typically like their local representative because their local representative is like them. They just don't like "the other guy."
For example, imagine there is a Congressman Smith in California who is for gun confiscations, for no-questions-asked abortions, and wants a more strict EPA. Further, imagine there is a Congressman Jones in Texas who is for no-questions-asked gun purchases, wants to ban abortions, and wants to defund the EPA.
The people in California love Smith, the people in Texas love Jones, but both of them hate Congress as a whole because they end up in a weird hybrid state which nobody likes.
I fail to see how voting against the incumbent helps that fundamental situation.