# Goats and Congress -- Cromulent lede in USA Today

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**Created:** [October 1, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goats-and-congress-cromulent-lede-in-usa-today/670070 "2013-10-01T05:12:24Z")\
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Seen in [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/30/goats-poison-ivy-shutdown-removed/2899555/) on line this evening:

> [@USA Today:](#):
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> **Poison ivy-eating goats removed ahead of shutdown**
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> **Shannon Mullen, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press** _11:21 p.m. EDT September 30, 2013_
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> _Goats arrived in July to eradicate poison ivy from Sandy Hook battery site._
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> SANDY HOOK, N.J. – For months now they’ve bleated at each other, locked horns and whiled away their days on the hill.
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> But enough about Congress.
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> The budget impasse in Washington, D.C., has chased a herd of ivy-eating goats from the Gateway National Recreation Area at Sandy Hook, N.J., ending their summerlong smorgasbord.