WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs of strain from the 34-day partial government shutdown are emerging on the Senate floor.
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado tore into Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Thursday after Cruz backed a GOP bill to pay Coast Guard members but not reopen the government.
The normally mild-mannered Bennet erupted in a fiery speech, saying, “These crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take.”
Bennet noted that Cruz single-handedly shut down the government in 2013, at a time when Colorado was flooded.
His…
