Equally important, these women felt – and acted upon – the moral necessity of actually governing. In the words of Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine who first put together the outlines of a deal and took it to the Senate floor, the shutdown “hurt all the small businesses” around Acadia National Park in her home state, “and that is plain wrong.”
同样重要的是，这些女性感受到了实际治理的道德必要性，并据此行动。用缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）的话说，政府关门对其缅因州阿卡迪亚国家公园（Acadia National Park ）周边“所有小企业都造成了伤害”，“这是完全错误的。”是她首先提出了和解协议纲要并送交参议院。