We Paid For This?!

You and I have paid almost $40,000 since the Government shutdown to keep taxpayer-funded television and radio studios inside the U.S. Capitol open for business so that the Congress can make sure they will get on TV.

The studios have been deemed essential during the shutdown and remain open.

Congress members have held at least 50 news conferences since the shutdown, to go with hundreds of more appearances on network, cable and local news.

Here is a report WRC in Washington: