Politics & Government

Lynch Outraged After Jog on Mall

Lynch, who voted against Obamacare, said his morning run took him past many closed monuments, driving home the damage the shutdown was doing.

By Joseph Markman

In an impassioned speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) goes beyond his one minute time limit in calling out his colleagues for a debate that is disgracing the memories of those who built the United States.

"We should not be disgracing their memory – all of those people from Jefferson to FDR and others – by dissolving this government, by defunding it and allowing it to fail," Lynch said. "We owe the American people better than that."

Lynch represents the Eighth Congressional District, which includes Dedham.


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