{"id":13430,"date":"2025-10-28T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=13430"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:57:22","slug":"senate-chaplain-offers-pointed-prayer-over-breaking-shutdown-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=13430","title":{"rendered":"Senate chaplain offers pointed prayer over \u2018breaking shutdown records\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-1.jpg 785w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-1-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-1-768x445.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Chaplain Barry Black on Monday offered a pointed prayer, saying he hopes lawmakers remember that \u201cno gold medals given\u201d for breaking shutdown records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEternal God, our king, when our children and grandchildren want to know what we were doing in the 119th Congress, during the famous shutdown, may we not have to give these answers: \u2018I helped set a new record for keeping the government closed,\u2019 \u2018I failed to appeal to the better angels of my nature,\u2019 \u2018I forgot Matthew 7:12, which states, \u2018Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you,\u2019\u201d Black said Monday in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the essence of all that is taught in the law and prophets. Lord remind our lawmakers that no gold medals are given for breaking shutdown records, but a crown of righteousness is given to those who take care of the lost,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic and Republican strategists and pollsters have both seen the government shutdown as a growing liability for both sides of the aisle, possibly pushing congressional leaders to look for a way out of the situation soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest federal workers\u2019 government union has called for the shutdown to end. On Monday, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley said that it was \u201ctime\u201d for Congress to immediately push through a clean continuing resolution (CR) to open up the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo half measures, and no gamesmanship,\u201d Kelley said. \u201cPut every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay \u2014 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to its website, the AFGE represents over 800,000 workers in \u201cnearly every\u201d federal government agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Chaplain Barry Black on Monday offered a pointed prayer, saying he hopes lawmakers remember that \u201cno gold medals given\u201d for breaking shutdown records. \u201cEternal God, our king, when our children and grandchildren want to know what we were doing in the 119th Congress, during the famous shutdown, may we not have to give these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1964,2536,2062],"class_list":["post-13430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-government","tag-no","tag-shutdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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