Federal shutdown unlikely to have immediate impact on Central New York

... a budget impasse for a month or more. That's the assessment of former U.S. Rep. James Walsh, who served as Central New York's congressman during the last government shutdown. The federal shutdown lasted for three weeks from December 1995 into ...

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