What he was referencing from a meritbased perspective we would like to have those with skills who can assimilate and contribute to the United States. Moving away from country quotas and meritbased system. It has turned into an s show and we need to get back to being a great country where democrats and republicans will Work Together to do something that we should have done years ago. Republicans are in control of the house and the senate and the white house. It is their decision if they want to work with us. We dont want to see the Government Shutdown but would like to see a twoyear budget deal thats clean. We havent given up on that and we hope that democrats will not hold our government hostage and will not stop military spending. Sandra peter doocy is live for us on a chilly day in washington peter are republicans trying to win over democratic support to keep the government open . No, sandra, theyre trying to do it with republicans only. The leaders are attempting to sweeten this one