because what we should be doing is democrats and republicans should be getting together, working on important legislation, getting the government running again and making sure that we create jobs and grow the economy. none of that is going to happen likely with any of these republican choices that keep being mentioned for speaker. >> when you take the train north and go home to your home district, the jersey shore, what are you hearing from people about your job, about our elected officials in general? >> well, they don't have a lot of faith in us because they see this chaos and they figure that we're not working to accomplish goals that are important to them. people still talk to me about jobs. people say they are unemployed or not making enough money, they are worried about make ends meet. obviously when you're at the shore they talk about things that impact the shore. but in general, it's the economy that people care about. they just don't see washington or congress addressing the concerns of the middle class.