| | | | | View in your browser | | |  | | | | | | Senate moderates see influence grow after shutdown fight | As the partisan blame game on the government shutdown intensified over the weekend, a growing number of senators from both parties began meeting in “little Switzerland."
That was the term used for the neutral ground of Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-Maine) office, which became the stage for a crucial stretch of bipartisan negotiations that were widely credited with breaking the three-day impasse over government funding.
"It’s the one place where we can all go and feel good," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters, referring the fourth floor Dirksen office as "Switzerland."
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) added that, amid the public bickering, Collins’s office became a place where senators could negotiate, not talk “at each other.” | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did a friend forward you this email? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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