president s health care law by a year, and to repeal a medical device tax paid by manufacturers for things like pacemakers or defibrillators, or delay that. also, they do want military paychecks to keep coming. but again, that is the house version where they stand. the senate says no way, the only thing they would consider is simply keeping the government open, nothing that would affect the health care law. so the contest begins, canke o donnell, i know you will be watching, thank you, joining me this morning, ted cruz, the man in the middle of the fight. so here are the stakes, de-funding, say you and other republicans, the president says no way. the law is moving forward. are you in control? at the end of the day every senator has to decide how he or she is going to vote.
year, and to repeal a medical device tax paid by manufacturers for things like pacemakers or defibrillators, delay that. also, they do want military paychecks to keep coming. but again, that is the house version where they stand. the senate says no way, the only thing they would consider is simply keeping the government open, nothing that would affect the health care law. so the staring contest begins, kelly o donnell, i know you will be watching, thank you, joining me this morning, ted cruz, the man in the middle of the fight. so here are the stakes, de-fund or delay, say you and other republicans, the president says no way. the law is moving forward. are you in control? at the end of the day every senator has to decide how he or she is going to vote. every representative has decided how they are going to vote.
who behind the republican conference is about the social policy in favor of a government shutdown? that would be an interesting person to come forward later on today. traditionally tea partiers not taking on the social issues. strictly speaking they re looking at the numbers behind this. mike viqueira, curious george, and luke russert, our loud snst mouth. he s the silver fox. will congress come to an agreement, that s the question, and if they can t should voters trust them to get anything done? military families are paying close attention what s going on here because if a shutdown happens here, of course, what would that mean to the military paychecks which would stop? i ll be sitting on that front loan going, god, i really don t care about afghanistan right now because i m wondering if my wife and kids are being fed at home. that s what they re worried about. congress wman adam smith is e ranking member of the house armed services committee.
the republican side are not calling it a government shutdown but a slowdown. to speak to that issue of how much of the government actually would continue to work under these circumstances. so very quickly before i let you go, just lay out who would work and who wouldn t? quick rundown. all the national parks of course would close. that s 393 national parks. it is 40% of the workforce furloughed. fha mortgages would stop. the irs would stop processing or at least greatly slow down processing paper tax returns. the majority of them are electronically filed now. those would continue to be processed. no more passports. military paychecks delayed, although troops obviously have to stay on the job. fha mortgage processing would stop. people in the housing industry are very worried about that. they are indeed. the housing market is a basket case so they think any shutdown could really hurt. pete williams, thank you so much. joining us now, the chairman of the senate budget committee, no
agreement on a budget. that means that we re facing a government shutdown midnight friday. 800,000 federal workers would be furloughed. military paychecks would be delayed if a deal can t be reached on spending. new in japan this morning the body of a second american has been found in the wreckage. monty jackson was in japan teaching english at schools there. at least two people were killed in an air strike on an opposition convoy near the libyan town of al brega. ben wedeman, we just had him on with us. he s been reporting that it s unclear if this is a nato airstrike or if pro-gadhafi forces were responsible. moammar gadhafi wrote a rambling letter to president obama asking him to stop the air campaign calling it an unjust war. they re rejecting the appeals saying that gadhafi needs to withdraw from rebel-held cities and agree to give up power and leave. the naacp finding unlikely