A Shutdown Looms. Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote?

A Shutdown Looms. Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote?-nytimes: Just days before a deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, President Trump, Democratic leaders and the Republican-controlled Congress are at a stalemate over the president’s treasured border wall. But House Republican leaders are also confronting a more mundane and awkward problem: Their vanquished and retiring members are sick and tired of Washington and don’t want to show up anymore to vote.