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unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to unbiased politics.

Today is Monday, October 27th.

Let's talk about some news.

We're going to start with the Shutdown Fairness Act because it's getting quite a lot of

attention after failing to make it to a vote in the Senate last Thursday because it would

have been the first step in allowing

federal workers, members of the military, and federal contractors to remain paid during the shutdown.

But here is what most people don't know. On Thursday, there were actually three pieces of proposed

legislation that all sought to pay federal workers

during the shutdown.

Two were sponsored by Democrats.

One was sponsored by a Republican.

All three of those measures failed.

But for whatever reason, the shutdown Fairness Act is the only one getting attention.

So let's take this one at a time. We'll

start with the two Democratic sponsored bills because those were motioned for first. And then we'll

talk about the Republican sponsored bill. The first Democratic bill was called the True Shutdown

Fairness Act. It was proposed by Senator Van Hollen. The second Democratic measure was called the True Shutdown Fairness Act. It was proposed by Senator Van Hollen.

The second Democratic measure was called the Military and Federal Employee Protection Act.

This was proposed by Senator Gary Peters. Van Hollen's True Shutdown Fairness Act would have paid all federal workers, members of the military,

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