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his year, around 50 employers are planning to attend, including a dozen recruiters from federal agencies who would most likely not attend if the government shuts down.
"The staff that are essential to legislating, even in a furlough or shutdown, can still come in," explained Coons to The Huffington Post. "But delivering direct constituent service in my home state is not deemed essential to my service as a senator because it is not legislating. And I can't have my legislative staff come in and then go to Delaware and help pull off the job fair. At least that's my current understanding."

Coons would personally still be able to attend the job fair. He said that he and his staff are working hard to keep the event on by looking for other people to work at the job fair, including people in the governor's office and volunteers. His furloughed Senate aides, however, would not be able to volunteer at the event.
At issue is whether conservatives will accept a compromise $30 billion spending cut in the 2011 budget or insist on $60 billion in short-term cuts, along with policy provisions defunding Planned Parenthood, the Environmental Protection Agency, and National Public Radio that are popular with social conservatives but political kryptonite to independents and centrists.

But the compromise measure of $30 billion is the largest onetime dollar-for-dollar cut to a proposed budget in American history—a good day at the office for anyone who wants to cut government spending. The alternative is a government shutdown that will solidify Main Street voters’ frustration with Washington’s culture of dysfunction.