i don t view a lot of seniors not making it on social security today. a lot of o, woulding people approaching retirement with nothing in the bank. i don t want to see social security and medicare cut. i ll oppose that vigorously. while i have you, you ve been in congress a long time, the house before the senate. there certainly have been some notableable bipartisan pieces o legislation. funding the government is up there, maybe the top responsibility of you and your fellow members of congress. why does this keep happening? well, i think it s happening right now because republicans see it as an opportunity to hold us hostage and get demands that under normal circumstances they would not. look, they have not been shy about making it clear. they want to cut social security. they want to cut medicare. they want to cut made kad. what they re saying is, hey, we re prepared to allow the united states government to default on our payments, bring