Because the government shut down around then in December so a few days later we were able (because all reservations were cancelled in all National Parks from Yosemite to Yellowstone to Volcanoes National park in Hawaii on the big Island. So, this is what personally happened to me. We were able to schedule a wedding, get reservations for about 14 of us at the Yosemite Lodge, get married at the Yosemite Chapel (built in the 1800s) and schedule and have a wedding reception at the Ahwahnee Hotel (all within one week's time because of the shutdown. So, the government kept shutting down (which closed immediately all National parks (then suddenly it would open for a short time) then shut down again). So, what happened to us is our wedding and reception came off without a hitch within a weeks time of making a reservation. However, then when we did a Fly and drive from Oahu at Waikiki and Honolulu Airport to the Hilo Airport and got our rental car, Volcanoes national park (the main reason we went there) was closed. So, our wedding was perfect but we couldn't go see the volcano going off into the sea. But, we could see in the distance the smoke of the volcano coming up out beyond the National Park. This was my personal experience during the Government shutdowns caused by New Gingrich who was then Republican Speaker of the House then.
This time if the government shuts down it will be Trump shutting it down where no National parks are open and various other things happen like Government employees not working or getting paid unless they are vital to national security somehow.
At the bottom of this page (likely without some of the pictures and other things) you will find an easier copy to read that I filtered through "Notepad" which is available pre loaded on most apple Iphones, Ipads and computers these days.
Oct 2, 2013 - 1995-96 Government Shutdown. SUMMARY: ... The shutdown was precipitated by a dispute between Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich over domestic spending cuts in the fiscal year 1996 budget and resulted in a bipartisan agreement to balance the budget in seven years' time.
Oct 4, 2013 - All government shutdowns are not created equal. The shutdowns in '95 and '96 occurred in a politically and economically different time.
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Jan 20, 2018 - As the country grapples with a government shutdown, here's a look at the one that ground the federal government to halt in 1995-1996.
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Bernice Chandler, left, and other furloughed federal workers protest the government shutdown outside the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Md., on Jan. 2, 1996. (Gary Sussman/AP)
Video from Jan. 11, 1996, showed federal workers returning to work after a government shutdown.
Ours isn’t the first winter of government discontent. Yes, America, we’ve been here before.
Long before the spectacle of President Trump and Congress scrambling and failing to avert a government shutdown, an entrenched budgetary standoff between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton ground government to a halt for a record four weeks. The vast federal workforce was furloughed from Dec. 16, 1995, to Jan. 6, 1996, the longest failure of basic governmental function in the history of the republic.
That breakdown came just a month after a five-day shutdown, and was further extended by a historic pair of winter storms that shut the government down again on the very day Washington’s civil servants were finally going back to work. In all, the winter of ’95-’96 was a frozen mess for federal functionality.
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The government’s spending authority expired on Dec. 15, a Saturday, so the full brunt of the shutdown wasn’t felt until 280,000 workers stayed home on Monday. (The previous shutdown had idled about 800,000 workers, but Congress had funded several more departments in the meantime). As the political sniping continued up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, the parks were dark, offices locked and the pulse of government went into winter hibernation.
Tourism took some of the biggest hits. Tour groups, with no Smithsonian museums to visit, canceled in droves. Taxi drivers cruised empty for hours. Hotels and restaurants cut staff.
“I want those congressmen to come down here and explain to our employees who we have to lay off why they’re going to have to pick between paying the rent and buying presents this Christmas,” Mike Dickens, president of a Bethesda-based hotel company, told The Washington Post.
And it wasn’t just Washington. By week three, the more than 1,600 hospitality workers outside of Yosemite National Park had been laid off.
Desperate, some museums turned to private funds to unlock the doors, even briefly. The National Gallery of Art tapped its Fund for International Exchange to pay 25 guards it needed to open a blockbuster Vermeer exhibit for a week, to the delight of tourists and cabin-bound government workers alike. (Weirdly, another Vermeer exhibit closes at the National Gallery on Sunday amid threat of another government shutdown.)
Then came the cruel climatic twist, just as the White House and Congress finally reached a deal. Clinton, Gingrich and then-Sen. Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) came to terms on Jan 6, 1996, a Saturday. The snow began falling that afternoon. By the time the Blizzard of ’96 (“the Furlough Storm”) and the Alberta clipper that followed it were over, two feet of snow had fallen on the Washington region, and federal workers were idled for another five days.
Bernice Chandler, left, and other furloughed federal workers protest the government shutdown outside the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Md., on Jan. 2, 1996. (Gary Sussman/AP)
By then tempers were shredded. Therapists reported an uptick in crisis calls from clients, many of them idled civil servants. A man in Frederick, finding someone parked in the space he had shoveled, used a garden hose to entomb the offending car in ice. At Rocky’s Video in Rockville, a customer punched out a clerk for not having a copy of “The Brady Bunch” in stock.
Federal workers finally came gingerly back, walking between heaps of snow and confronting mountains of paperwork.
The State Department faced a backlog of 200,000 passport applications; Education Department staffers had more than 100,000 loans and grants to process, and Veterans Affairs workers needed to install 60,000 gravestones.
Everyone got busy. Not that they had been completely idle: Nine months later, Washington hospitals reported a spike in “furlough babies.”
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