Group Launches Petition to Pressure Congress Action on Budget, Avoid Devastating Shutdown
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 10, 2011 Contact: Leigh Fifelski, 517-999-3646 LANSING – Citizens group Progress Michigan today launched a petition designed to force Congress to pass a federal budget and avoid a devastating government shutdown, by docking legislators’ pay during a shutdown. “Politicians in Washington should live by the same rules as the rest…