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He is Eric Harley and I'm Gary McNamara.

Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for being here.

All right. So the shutdown, you had the largest government employees union on the federal level yesterday.

The head of that actually two days ago come out and state that the shutdown needs to end now.

Clean, continuing resolution, pass it.

Here's the head of the National Air Traffic Controlers Association, President Nick

Daniels yesterday on the shutdown.

Day and day out, that's now the life of an air traffic controller.

The people tasked with making the impossible possible are having

it made impossible by not paying them again. So the message is simple. In the shutdown today,

there is no excuse that these hardworking men and women are showing up to do this job

and to not ever know when they're going to get paid again. So we need America's help. We need

you to stand up and we need you to say enough is enough in this shutdown and ensure that we can move

this forward because we do not want to be up here telling you the sad stories. We want to be up here

telling you how we're moving this system forward, how we're bringing in more air traffic controllers

than ever, how we're modernizing this system to, you know, serve the American

people. So again, it cannot stress enough. If you want to take action, contact your

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