“I’m a guest of honor this weekend at the Dallas’s Fencon this weekend, and I’ve just learned that some of the other speakers won’t be able to talk, thanks to the government shutdown. They’re government space scientists, and the 143-year-old Antideficiency Act makes it a crime (punishable by fines and imprisonment) for government employees to volunteer to do their own jobs (which, in their cases, includes talking about science to the public). The law dates back to the Lincoln administration, and was aimed at stopping fraudsters who did ‘government’ business, then presented a bill for services that hadn’t been contracted but had nevertheless been performed.”
http://boingboing.net/2013/10/04/during-the-shutdown-some-scie.html
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