Rep. Virginia Foxx, a longtime Congresswoman from NC, bristled over the criticism.
Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina got mad after Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona accused lawmakers of treating the government shutdown like an “eight-week vacation.”
Foxx, who leads the House Rules Committee, called a meeting on the evening of Nov. 11 as the House prepared to vote on reopening the federal government.
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