The federal government—which can barely even deliver mail with the address on the front of the envelope—has a plan to kill more than 10% of the North American Barred Owl population. My resolution would stop this nonsense. | Senator John Kennedy

SEN KENNEDY on the government shutdown: "[Democrats] are looking foolish. I'm sure Jesus loves them, but to the American people, they're looking like idiots." | Fox Business

Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, is urging his colleagues to support a bill he is sponsoring that would fund the SNAP program through the shutdown. The Department of Agriculture said federal food aid will not go out on Nov. 1. “My view is that no child in this country ought to go to bed hungry because a bunch of politicians in Washington can't decide what they want to do, and they're intent on blaming each other,” Hawley told reporters on Tuesday. More than 40 million Americans who rely