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Speaker 1: Two months after a forty three day government wide shutdown

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Speaker 1: ended in November, the Department of Homeland Security is once

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Speaker 1: again caught in the politics of Washington. TSA security checkpoint

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Speaker 1: workers at Logan Airport and at airports across the country

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Speaker 1: forced to work without getting paid. Travel is generally sympathetic

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Speaker 1: to the plight of the workers deemed essential.

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Speaker 2: I think it is chaos, and I think that we

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Speaker 2: need to do a better job to ensure that the

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Speaker 2: people that protect us are paid. We're in a situation

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Speaker 2: where you can lose security and you know people that

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Speaker 2: are working without any pay that make a just paycheck

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Speaker 2: to paycheck.

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Speaker 1: You blame it on the folks in Washington. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: So far, no drastic impact on air travel. In past shutdowns,

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Speaker 1: the flight delays and cancelations tended to build up over time.

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Speaker 1: Once again, time will tell At Logan Airport, Mike Macklan WBZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio