A 1995 budgetary standoff between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton ground the government to a halt for four painful weeks.
And it wasn’t just Washington. By week three, the more than 1,600 hospitality workers outside of Yosemite National Park had been laid off.Desperate, some museums turned to private funds to unlock the doors, even briefly. The National Gallery of Art tapped its Fund for International Exchange to pay 25 guards it needed to open a blockbuster Vermeer exhibit for a week, to the delight of tourists and cabin-bound government workers alike.
Then came the cruel climatic twist, just as the White House and Congress finally reached a deal. Clinton, Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole came to terms on Jan. 6, 1996, a Saturday. The snow began falling that afternoon. By the time the Blizzard of ’96 and the Alberta clipper that followed it were over, two feet of snow had fallen on the Washington region, and federal workers were idled for another five days.By then, tempers were shredded.
Federal workers finally came gingerly back, walking between heaps of snow and confronting mountains of paperwork. The State Department faced a backlog of 200,000 passport applications, Education Department staffers had more than 100,000 loans and grants to process and Veterans Affairs workers needed to install 60,000 gravestones.
Everyone got busy. Not that they had been completely idle: Nine months later, Washington hospitals reported a spike in
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