instead, two senators holding their own party hostage. all this as congress has to act before midnight tomorrow to avert a government shutdown. chuck schumer says that he's got an agreement with republicans for a stopgap funding bill and they'll vote on that in the morning. and no pressure, but they have also got until october 18th to suspend the debt ceiling so the u.s. can pay its bills. the house voted to do just that tonight. but the bill is all but certain to fail in the senate. and let's remember what's at stake here. if congress doesn't act to raise the debt ceiling, social-security payments get hit. the stock market tanks, plummets. mortgage rates rise. and we could lose millions of jobs -- millions of jobs. all of that and the gop is willing to take the country to the brink to score political points. let's remember, mitch mcconnell is refusing to vote for some -- something that he has voted on