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Freshman U.S. Rep. John Joyce started his tenure in Washington amid the second-longest partial government shutdown.
"Yet I am up for the challenge," Joyce said in a telephone interview from the nation's capital Tuesday. "This is a special set of circumstances, and yet I still feel I need to address these issues the people from Somerset sent me to Washington to do."
Joyce, Thompson seek federal money for research into cure
Two area congressmen are pushing for federal funding to find a cure for chronic wasting disease.
The weekend marked two dubious landmarks in the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government: The shutdown became the longest in U.S. history, and thousands of federal workers across Pennsylvania received their first $0 paychecks.