watch out when people start to make their feelings felt, because even on the hill, they will feel it. tomorrow, a lot of things that people may expect from government shutdown are not going to happen, right? medicare will continue to function, social security, the mail, military, all of those things, so people are not necessarily going to feel anything tomorrow. what happens when the government shuts down tonight? i mean, how quickly could it reopen? i mean, i don t understand the logistics from here. reporter: i am sorry, i think i missed the beginning of what you were saying, there were some technical difficulties. but the logistics, what happens from here is really unclear, i believe that was what your question is? yes. reporter: but when it comes to the government, you know, we do know that already today, erin, people here in the capitol hill and elsewhere in the federal government got their furlough notices if they re considered nonessential. we do know that all of the bui
59, karen. and this is the continuing resolution. it s come back from the senate, the idea now is that they re going to amend it, and with the amendment they re going to repeal the medical device tax. now the medical device tax, it s interesting. because there is room for discussion about the medical device tax. but karen, not when not in these circumstances. not when they ve got us over a barrel. there s so many americans that would suffer, and it s so stupid because it s been proven that a shutdown costs american taxpayers money. you would think it would save us money, but in the 95, 96 shut downs, those shutdowns cost about $2 billion. because of all the furlough notices, all of the prepare work, a lot of the administrative stuff that goes on, you end up losing a lot of money from stopping and starting
bit this morning. romney returns to the stage after 6 months. romney tells the wall street journal he is plan to go work on ways to help shape our national priorities. so starts next week with a meeting with 200 friends and supporters from utah he is disappointed the white house lax a clear agenda. he is considering writing a book and a series of op eds. employees who care for wounded will get furlough notices. they will be furloughed without pay one day a week for the next 11 weeks. walter reed is not sure how this will effect care for those beginning july 8th. an american woman reportedly killed while fighting there. the family of 33-year-old nicole lyn mansfield of flint michigan
of taxpayers money were wasted investigating everything possible. and i just think it s shameful. because there s so many issues that we need to be dealing with right now. the economy might be getting better but we still have a terrible need for jobs. and also, sequestration. which continues to kick in day by day. i know that in my district alone, and in the adjoining district. there s a number of people who are getting furlough notices. at a military base. and so, we do have real issues and now that the economy is getting better, we need to do everything we can to help it continue to get better. and to not come up with diversions such as scandals. to tie our time. how many committees need to investigate these issues? congresswoman karen bass, thank you very much. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me on. turning to weather, tornado watches are up for most of the middle of the country with a possibility of outbreak later today in oklahoma. on thursday, storm chasers
well taketaken. just this week we had furlough notices go out to civilian employees of the defense department. these are people who do important jobs but who are civilian workers. 800,000 affected across the country. a lot here in my home state of minnesota. they got furlough notices and they re extremely upset. i also met with a federal judge yesterday who i called and asked him how are sequestration affecting you? and we re going to see significant cuts to the public defender system. you know, in the united states we have a right to counsel if you cannot afford one. that s gideon v. wainwright. the way the cuts are coming down, this core right is in jeopardy when you look at all the days furloughs going to affect federal public defenders, not to mention people on pretrial release, not to mention other important aspects of court administration. that means people s cases being delayed. this means people, perhaps, being released who shouldn t be.