right now the house is considering a continuing resolution, carl was just talking about it, to keep the government running for two more weeks. last hour house republican peter roskum told us if senate democrats walk away from the house resolution it will show they are actively engineering a government shut down. listen. >> i think the house republicans have acted forthrightly and clearly following up on what the american public said last november and that was that we needed to save in order to create jobs in this country. there was a continuing resolution that was passed that cut $61 billion off of last year's number. we are poised to act this afternoon, do the same thing on a short term basis. now the senate has two opportunities to deal with that. so far they've given it lip-service, but my suggestion is if they walk away from both of those resolutions and say neither one of them is good enough, then i believe they are actively engineering a government shut down and the public doesn't want that. jon: even if both sides reach an agreement on this temporary spending measure they face a