senators from minnesota and they re open to the idea of repealing the medical device tax, too. maybe it s an idea of sitting down at the table with the leaders and get the rank and file members behind it. quickly, people watching all have opinions on this. i mean, congress has a 10% approval rating. are you surprised? no, i m not surprised at all. i m not in the approval rating support the approval rating as well. congress has broken congress is broken. washington is broken. the president is doing the finger pointing as well. folks are expecting us come together to sit down. we have the challenge with the debt ceiling come up. vast majority of the public said it shouldn t be negotiated over. we need to be prepared for that to have serious talks, negotiations, to get it right because 17 trillion debt, that s nothing to scoff at. we need to address that with future plans and make sure we don t default but we ve got to have a plan in place so it s reformed and fixed in the future.
house. i don t have a car. i don t have the credit that i ve worked hard to establish. i just don t know. and that s a scary thought, not being in control of my own destiny when i put things in my life to have control. message to congress, anything to say to people in washington? it s discouraging. it s very discouraging. i would like congress to know that as we approach, you know, going on a week of the shutdown, the american people want to work. i represent i m the union rep for the atlantic district office of the american federation of american employees. we want to eradicate discrimination in the workplace. we can t do that if we re shut down. we want to pay our bills on time. we already lost five days with the previous furlough. our paychecks were late for four days. you know, with the loom of the debt ceiling we don t know. you want to work. we want to work, bottom line.
concession of not raising debt ceiling? what are they asking for now from leadership? if i can add a rider to that, why are they so powerful? reporter: the reason they are so powerful is because they are well, let me answer the first question from suzanne first of what they want. one of the congressmen was actually quoted saying that they don t really know what they want and that is part of the problem. many of them come from extremely conservative districts and they re getting phone calls from their conservatives say, go, go, go, keep it going, shut it down, and that s the kind of feedback they re getting. it s not the what s going on with you guys in washington. and that s what makes them so powerful because they re getting that advice or those applause from their constituents back home. the other thing that make them powerful they re a hefty part of the republican party and they are being egged on by ted cruz
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