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Shutdown affects student intern in DC By Megan Stoebig the daily cardinal
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University of Wisconsin-Madison students had a chance Thursday to win men’s hockey season tickets by making a shot on the Kohl Center ice. + Photo by Wil Gibb
University of WisconsinMadison junior Reuben Sanon, a current affairs intern in Washington, D.C., for the semester, has been off work all week because of the government shutdown. Sanon said his office has been deemed “unnecessary” for this week but will continue work again next week. Still, he said the shutdown has negatively changed his mindset on working for the government in the future. “All of the interns are being affected because we came here to make those connections and make something out of this semester,” Sanon said. “I honestly don’t want to work in government if it is just some big game of who has bigger balls or who can hold the gov-
ernment hostage for longer.” Sanon also said the shutdown greatly affects the economy, as it is costing millions of dollars each day to remain in a state of shutdown. He added he is aware of many people working at the national monuments in D.C. currently off work and forced to start looking for second jobs. He said the atmosphere in D.C. has been unusual, largely because most people in his office thought the government would “get their act together” in time. “It’s kind of a nervous energy right now because people are still having a good time going out because they have faith that our government will come through,” Sanon said. A general consensus in the UW-Madison community is that the shutdown’s shorter-
Suder will transition to private sector job Former state Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, will change his job for the second time in two months, according to a release from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, in the wake of controversy concerning an award of a $500,000 grant to United Sportsmen. Suder resigned from the state Assembly Sept. 3 to take a position within the PSC as the administrator of the Division of Water, Compliance and Consumer Affairs. He now plans to accept a private sector position with Wisconsin Paper Council, according to a statement from the company. However, soon after his announcement, critics began challenging the move because of Suder’s involvement with the United Sportsmen grant. The grant, which was passed in the recent state budget, was awarded to the group despite its lack of experience with hunting outreach programs. Suder signed a Republican letter, along with 17 other Republican legislators, urging the granting committee to choose United Sportsmen for the funding. Suder also went on a free fish-
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term effects will not significantly impact campus, but there could be some longerterm effects if the shutdown lasts more than a couple months. One shorter-term effect impacts research facilities on campus. Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Administration Kim Moreland said new research will be affected the most, as no one is available to review and approve proposals. Additionally, projects in federal labs have been stopped, as well as projects requiring collaboration with someone in the federal government. “The feds are going to be so overwhelmed when they come back, it’s going to be hard for them to turn around and get all this information back out, ” Moreland said.
Gunshots put Baldwin and her staff on lockdown
those with preexisting health issues pay the same price for care, an individualized mandate that requires everyone to buy health insurance and the creation of subsidies to make health insurance affordable. Gruber argues the implementation of “Obamacare” will lead to a deficit reduction of $100 billion over the next decade. He
As the government shutdown dragged into its third day Thursday, Capitol Hill was disrupted with a speeding black sedan, gunshots, a Capitol lockdown and one death. A woman, accompanied by a 1-year-old child, attempted to drive through a White House barrier before turning and speeding toward the U.S. Capitol while police pursued. The chase ended in front of the Hart Senate Office Building, where Capitol Police officers fatally shot the driver. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., works in the Hart building and had just returned to her office after attending meetings in the Capitol. She said she first learned of the gunshots through an emergency alert system Capitol Hill uses that informed her and her staff to “shelter in place” because the Capitol was on lockdown. Baldwin said her first thought went to her staff, which includes multiple college interns who were new to Capitol Hill. “It was probably very frightening for the interns to be here at such a moment,” Baldwin said. But she said the alert system worked well and kept people safe. “I know that from my own perspective, the system in place
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Jonathan Gruber discusses challenges and opportunities behind the nationwide implementation of ‘Obamacare,’ which was inspired by his health reform law.
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber discusses federal health care reform By Daniella Emanuel the daily cardinal
Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave a lecture Thursday at Union South on the current national issues of health care reform, including the implementation of “Obamacare.” Gruber helped construct the Massachusetts Health
Care Insurance Reform Law, signed in 2006, which now covers two-thirds of the state’s uninsured residents and later influenced the creation of the Affordable Care Act. He used a metaphor of a “three-legged stool” to describe the act, which he and Gov. Mitt Romney collaborated on for approval in Massachusetts. The three legs include: having both healthy people and
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