All but four congressional Democrats voted against a GOP funding bill that would have kept the federal government open. Many of them have since lamented that millions of federal workers will not receive a paycheck until the government reopens—while still getting paid themselves. Federal law stipulates that members of Congress, unlike the troops, get paid during a shutdown. But they can opt to defer or donate their taxpayer-funded salaries, which start at $174,000 a year. Some members of