Rep. Larson Admonishes Congress for Shutdown

This story was written and reported by Patch Editor Ted Glanzer. 

U.S. Rep. John Larson is generating some buzz this morning for the comments he made on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday morning in the wake of the government shutdown.

Larson, a Democrat whose district includes Manchester, yelled at his fellow Congressmen to “stand up for America.”

Larson said that Congress needed to “do what’s fair for the American people, not Democrats, not Republicans, not Green Party, not the Tea Party, but the American people. The American people … deserve to have their government open.”

Watch more on Buzzfeed here.