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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, a Republican from Altoona, was sworn into office Thursday.
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.
U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-13th District, and U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-15th District, introduced the Chronic Wasting Dis ease Research Act on Friday, which would authorize $15 million in federal funding to states, higher education institutions and other entities researching a cure for CWD.
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.