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National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence communities ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ( NSA Surveillance Shutdown )

Furloughed government union workers demonstrate on the side of Constitution Avenue October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands of government workers have been furloughed during the government shutdown as the House of Representatives and Senate remain gridlocked over funding the federal government. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ( 182646578 )

US Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, speaks during a press conference about the effect of the government shutdown, on Capitol Hill October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523449657 )

A woman reads a notice of closure on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration internet site from Washington, DC on October 2, 2013. As part of the US federal government shutdown many non-essential sites run by government agencies will remain static, replaced with a splash page. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images ( 523444316 )

Trader Kevin Walsh works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The stock market is opening lower as the U.S. government shutdown enters a second day with little hope for a resolution in sight. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Wall Street )

A group of Nampa High students check their luggage and prepare for a trip to Washington, D.C. before dawn Wednesday Oct. 2, 2013 at the Boise Airport. The students belong to a travel club and have been planning the trip for over a year, but the recent government shutdown of many of the sites they are planning to see will not be open. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Darin Oswald) ( Federal Shutdown Idaho )

A closure sign at the front of the World War II Memorial October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. Veterans groups continue to visit the various war memorials even though they have been shuttered by the government shutdown. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images ( 523451048 )

Chairs and cubicles are empty at the U.S. Army Garrison Ft. Lee Management Services budget office in Petersburg, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ( Budget Battle-Military Bases )

Senator Benjamin L. Cardin D-MD speaks while other Senators and federal workers listen during a press conference about the effect of the government shutdown on Capitol Hill October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523449722 )

A sign is posted next to the door to the darkened offices of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The government shutdown is in its second day.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) ( Government Shutdown Oregon )

US military veteran Eugene Morgan(wheelchair) and his son Jeff, are greeted by supporters Lance Frye(R) and Jeff Lee as he makes his first visit to the World War II Memorial October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. Veterans groups continue to visit the various war memorials even though they have been shuttered by the government shutdown. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images ( 523451169 )

Trader Timothy Nick works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The U.S. stock market fell on the second day of a government shutdown after a private poll showed that employers added fewer jobs last month than economists had forecast. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Wall Street )

Ninety-six-year-old World War II veteran Eugene Morgan (L) of West Memphis, Arkansas, listens to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (D-MN) (2nd R) as Rep. John Carter (R-TX) (R) looks on during Morgans visit to the World War II Memorial October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. Congressional members opened up the barricades of the memorial again and welcomed veteran groups to visit, most of them came on Honor Flights from around the country, on the second day of the government shutdown. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) ( 182652651 )

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., left, talks with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, during the committee's oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community's ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ( NSA Surveillance Shutdown )

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, speaks while with other Senators and federal workers listen during a press conference about the effect of the government shutdown, on Capitol Hill October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523449977 )

Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency testifes during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on oversight of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) ( 182649103 )

Furloughed government union workers demonstrate on the side of Constitution Avenue October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ( 182646888 )

US military veteran Pat Whalen, who served in the Pacific, waves a US flag as he makes his first visit to the World War II Memorial October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. Veterans groups continue to visit the various war memorials even though they have been shuttered by the government shutdown. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images ( 523450873 )

Janette Dunder of Alexandria, Virgina, demonstrates against Congress and lawmakers' inability to pass a budget outside the U.S. Capitol September 30, 2013 in Washington, DC. If House Republicans do not find common ground with President Obama and Senate Democrats on the federal budget by midnight, segments of the federal government will close, hundreds of thousands of workers would be furloughed without pay and millions more would be asked to work for no pay. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182560136 )

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa listens to remarks by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., as they celebrate the start of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, during an event with other lawmakers and people whose lives have been impacted by lack of health insurance, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ( Budget Battle Healthcare )

A protester holds a placard as she joins others in a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington on October 1, 2013 urging Congress to pass a budget. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523424953 )

A protester covers his mouth with a dollar bill as he joins other in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013 urging congress to pass the budget bill. US President Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government as part of an "ideological crusade" designed to kill his signature health care law. The US government shut down on October 1, 2013 for the first time in 17 years after a gridlocked Congress failed to reach a federal budget deal amid bitter brinkmanship. Some 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed in a move reminiscent of two previous shutdowns -- for six days in November 1995 and 21 days from December that year into early 1996. AFP Photo/Jewel SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523424521 )

With her rolling backpack and bags in hand, Bronwyn Hogan, an employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, leaves the federal offices in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Hogan and other federal employees were forced to go on furlough due to the partial federal government shutdown.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ( Budget Battle California )

A protester holds a placard as she joins others in a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013 urging congress to pass the budget bill. US President Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government as part of an "ideological crusade" designed to kill his signature health care law. The US government shut down on October 1, 2013 for the first time in 17 years after a gridlocked Congress failed to reach a federal budget deal amid bitter brinkmanship. Some 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed in a move reminiscent of two previous shutdowns -- for six days in November 1995 and 21 days from December that year into early 1996. AFP Photo/Jewel SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523424653 )

Workers take a break outside the John Weld Peck Federal Building, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Cincinnati. The impact of the partial federal government shutdown began rippling across Ohio on Tuesday, with a national military museum and national park closing and thousands of federal employees going on furlough. (AP Photo/Al Behrman) ( Budget Battle Ohio )

Furloughed federal employes demonstrate in view of a shuttered Independence Hall at Independence National Historical Park Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ( Budget Battle Pennsylvania )

Protesters display placards during a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013 urging congress to pass the budget bill. US President Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government as part of an "ideological crusade" designed to kill his signature health care law. AFP Photo/Jewel SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523424649 )

Matt Doudera, right, of Camden, Maine. and Taylor Kelley, of Front Royal, Va., look over maps Tuesday Oct.. 1, 2013, to make alternative plans after finding the entrance to the Shenandoah National Park in Front Royal closed due to the Federal budget battle. Many National parks are closed to traffic and some will become completely inaccessible. (AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Scott Mason) ( Budget Battle Shurtdown Impact )

Beech Grove resident Joseph Lohman, 25, right, who served as a corporal in the U.S. Marines from 2008-2012, is confronted by Southside Indianapolis Marine recruiter Sgt. Joshua York, left, as Lohman stands alongside South Emerson Avenue holding an upside down American flag, a signal of distess, to show his concern over the government shutdown that started at midnight. "With the flag upside down, it means that the country is in distress," says Lohman, who headed out onto the sidewalk at midnight. He said he is concerned about veterans not getting their disability checks with the government shut down. (AP Photo/The Star,Charlie Nye) ( Budget Battle Indiana )

National Park Service spokeswoman Carol Johnson speaks to reporters at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. A group of veterans walked past barriers at the closed World War II memorial with help from members of Congress. Hundreds of veterans arrived for a previously scheduled visit to the memorial Tuesday morning to find it barricaded by the National Park Service. Members of Congress, including Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, went to the site after receiving panicked emails and cut police tape to let in the veterans from Iowa and Mississippi. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ( Budget Battle Veterans Memorial )

Furloughed federal employees leave the federal offices in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. The impact of the partial federal government shutdown began to take effect as employees leave their federal jobs.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ( Budget Battle California )

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, accompanied by other lawmakers and people who's lives have been impacted by lack of health insurance, smiles during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, to celebrate the first day of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. From left are, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Reid, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ( Budget Battle Healthcare )

Visitors to Independence National Historical Park stand in line in view of Independence Hall to look through a window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ( Budget Battle Pennsylvania )

Protesters display placards during a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013 urging congress to pass the budget bill. AFP Photo/Jewel SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523424665 )

Rick Martin, chief of operations at the Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, Miss., expresses his disappointment at having to close the park Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2014. The National Park Service has been directed to close all memorials, and non-essential staff has been directed to go home. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) ( Budget Battle Mississippi )

US President Barack Obama speaks at the Rose Garden of the White House on the first day of the federal government shutdown, in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013. Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government as part of an "ideological crusade" designed to kill his signature health care law. AFP Photo / Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523420590 )

Park Ranger Scott Rolfes locks a gate closing a road over the dam at Saylorville Lake, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Saylorville, Iowa. About 800,000 federal workers are being forced off the job in the first government shutdown in 17 years, suspending most nonessential federal programs and services.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ( Budget Battle Iowa )

World War II Veteran George Bloss, from Gulfport, Miss., looks out over the National World War II Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Veterans who had traveled from across the country were allowed to visit the National World War II Memorial after it had been officially closed because of the partial government shutdown. After their visit, National World War II Memorial was closed again. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ( Budget Battle Veterans Memorial )

A closure sign is seen as US military war veterans visit the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013. The US Park Service opened the area to the veterans who are brought to Washington to visit and reflect at their memorials through the efforts of Honor Flight, a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices. AFP Photo/Karen BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images ( 523419681 )

Darlene Tinsley, left, secretary/treasurer for the American Federation of Government Employees, leads protesters of the government shutdown in front of the Anthony J. Celebreezze Federal Building Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) ( Budget Battle Ohio )

Hot Springs National Park employee Stacy Jackson carries a barricade while closing Arlington Lawn in Hot Springs National Park Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, because of the federal government's partial shutdown. (AP Photo/The Sentinel-Record, Richard Rasmussen) ( Budget Battle Arkansas )

With the federal government out of money and out of time, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., center, meets with House GOP conferees as the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate remain at an impasse, neither side backing down over Obamacare, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Cantor, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp , R-Mich., and Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga. Graves led an effort with other emboldened conservatives that forced Speaker Boehner and the leadership to tie the money needed to keep the government running with defunding Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ( Budget Battle )

Fay Wagstaff, of El Paso, Texas, sits on the front steps of the closed Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ( APTOPIX Budget Battle )

Nathan Boggs installs ArtPrize Top 10 painting "Polar Expressed" by his wife Annie Crouter in a tent outside at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. The tent was set up to display the entry and Ann Loveless' "Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore" that were inside the museum before a federal government shutdown temporarily closed the museum's doors. (AP Photo/The Press, Chris Clark) ( Budget Battle-Michigan-Museum )

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about the launch of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces and the first federal government shutdown in 17 years as he's joined by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (3R) and Americans who will benefit from the Affordable Care Act in the Rose Garden of the White House October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. House Republicans and Senate Democrats continue to volley legislation back and forth as they battle over a budget to keep the government running and delaying or defunding "Obamacare." (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182597399 )

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, following a vote in the Senate rejecting the latest House GOP effort to negotiate on government spending. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ( Budget Battle )

U.S. Park Service employee puts a closed sign on the restrooms at the World War II Memorial ticket office on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. National Park Service park facilities and grounds were closed and more than 21,000 of the service's employees were furloughed after Congress was unable to agree on a federal budget and shut down for the first time in 17 years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182586305 )

A group of art students take up the staircase of the National Art Gallery as it is closed due to Federal government shutdown in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013. The US government shut down Tuesday for the first time in 17 years after a gridlocked Congress failed to reach a federal budget deal amid bitter brinkmanship. Some 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed in a move reminiscent of two previous shutdowns -- for six days in November 1995 and 21 days from December that year into early 1996. AFP Photo/Jewel SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images ( 523415906 )

US Park Ranger Richard Trott places a closed sign on a barricade in front of the World War II Memorial monument in Washington, DC, October 1, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON/AFP/Getty Images ( 523413124 )

A board informs visitors of the closing of the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, west of Paris, on October 1, 2013, after US Congress was unable to agree on a federal budget and shut down for the first time in 17 years. Ten minutes before midnight on September 30, 2013, the White House budget office issued an order for many government departments to start closing down, triggering 800,000 furloughs of federal workers, and shutting tourists out of national parks and museums. AFP PHOTO PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images ( 523414354 )

Barricades around the World War II Memorial prevent people from entering the monument on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182586307 )

A sign alerting visitors that the National Gallery of Art is closed stands outside the building as it remains indefinitely closed on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. Smithsonian institutions were closed and thousands of employees were furloughed after Congress was unable to agree on a federal budget and shut down the goverment for the first time in 17 years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182585835 )

U.S. Park Police move barricades into place around the World War II Memorial to prevent people from entering the monument on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182586313 )

U.S. Park Service employee puts a closed sign in the window of the World War II Memorial ticket office on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) ( 182586318 )

A government employee steps out of an opening in a door at Castle Clinton National Monument in lower Manhattan, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 in New York. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law forced about 800,000 federal workers off the job, suspending all but essential services. "Closed" signs and barricades sprang up at the Lincoln Memorial, and national parks and federal workplaces across the country were following suit. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ( Budget Battle )

Visitors to Independence National Historical Park are reflected in the window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ( APTOPIX Budget Battle )

A U.S. Park Police officer tells tourist to leave the closing Martin Luther King (MLK) Memorial on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) ( 182587516 )

A US Park Police officer ties police tape to a hand rail closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ( Budget Battle )

A sign explaining the closing of the Library of Congress is posted outside the Library of Congress in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ( Budget Battle )

John Carano, 65, walks on a trail at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Valley View, Ohio. The impacts of the federal shutdown began rippling across Ohio on Tuesday morning, with a national military museum and national park closing and thousands of federal employees going on furlough. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) ( Budget Battle Ohio )

US Park Service workers fence off the closed Lincoln Monument in Washington, DC, October 1, 2013 , as the first US Federal government shutdown since 1995 begins. The Lincoln Memorial and many other non-essential government run institutions are on a shut-down list. The National Mall and all monuments and large sections of the government closed due to government shut down after Congress failed to agree on spending. AFP PHOTO / Paul J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images ( 523412121 )

Tourists walk by a sign announcing that the Statue of Liberty is closed due to a US government shutdown in New York, October 1, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images ( 523413038 )

A US Park Police Officer directs people away after closing the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523412226 )