Article snippet: MORE had had enough. House lawmakers were in the midst of a marathon voting session on Thursday — a 35-vote slog demanded by a single lawmaker — when the cantankerous Alaska Republican stormed down the aisle of the House floor and began screaming at Rep. MORE (R-Ga.), who was presiding over the chamber, to close down the vote. The 85-year-old Young, the dean of the House and longest-serving member, was furious that the vote was left open for Rep. MORE (D-N.J.), who has been limping around the Capitol on a booted foot. “Next time, you bang that gavel,” Young shouted at Collins while shaking his fist. “Until he is in the goddamn well, it don’t count!” Majority Leader MORE (R-Calif.), standing near Young, gently scolded him, according to lawmakers on the floor: “You’re on TV. That’s not very Dean-like.’ ” The episode underlined how tempers are at an all-time high in the Capitol as Washington barrels toward its third shutdown of 2018 — just four days before Christmas — in what could be the House GOP’s final act in the majority. A partial shutdown will occur at midnight Friday unless MORE and Democrats reach an eleventh-hour deal to fund a handful of government agencies. Across the Capitol complex this week, lawmakers wore tired, gloomy looks on their faces as they limped to the finish line of the 115th Congress. They wanted to be anywhere but here over the holidays — especially the lame-duck Republicans who lost their reelection bids last month. One cranky Republican... Link to the full article to read more