21.   Area lawmakers are gearing up to prevent a pending government shutdown.

22.   Another U.S. government shutdown is a possibility this weekend.

23.   At a liberal Washington think tank, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, legislative director Ellen Nissenbaum also said she expects a compromise without a government shutdown.

24.   At the bar, talk was of how badly the drought and the government shutdown of the national parks during the spring budget battle had hurt the local economy.

25.   Because of the federal budget debate and resulting partial government shutdown, the park was closed.

26.   Because the recent government shutdown that kept so many workers off the job, Berkeley is offering the disk at half retail price to all federal workers.

27.   Beverly Harrison, a retired schoolteacher on vacation from Tacoma, Wash., said she has been frustrated by the government shutdown.

28.   Both sides in the negotiations, Brien said, are on the record that a government shutdown is not in the cards.

29.   Both sides are eager to enact the measure since neither wants to be blamed for a government shutdown Saturday, the end of the current fiscal year.

30.   Both sides have conceded they may have to approve another temporary measure to keep the government open and avoid the third partial federal government shutdown in five months.