Importance of bipartisanship in congress. You can join the conch you can join the conversation this you can also join us by twitter, facebook, and email. We will get to your call shortly. We are looking at several different bipartisan efforts in congress, that will be our focus and we will give you a chance later for open phones as we wrap up this morning. Congress is facing the issues of the end of the fiscal year and raising the debt ceiling and reporting on that from politico, here is the headline republicans will meet later today. On the issue of the debt ceiling, the treasury secretary, jack lew, was at the Economic Club of washington yesterday to talk about the impending debt ceiling and the necessity of raising the debt ceiling and the discussions going on in washington. [video clip] timing a debt ceiling discussion till the last minute could be disastrous. If congress is not actively was suddenly cannot pay its bills, the repercussions could be serious. The impact on families and businesses could be significant. Investors losing confidence in the full faith and credit of the United States could cause damage to our economy. Failure to raise the debt limit or even an extended debate on the merits of doing so likely is a self in 2011 inflicted wound that can harm our economy at a moment when the recovery is strengthening. No credible economist or Business Leader thinks defaulting on the full faith and credit of the United States is good for job creation or economic growth. We understand congress choosing not to pay the government bills is unacceptable and can hurt our economy. Consider the words of another treasury secretary, james baker, who served under president reagan. Faced with the threat to our credit, he told congress a failure to pay on what is already do will cause serious harm to our credit in the financial markets, and arse just our citizens. This should be an unthinkable event. Never in our history of the United States have we defaulted on our obligations. Congress has always lived up to its responsibility to protect the nations credit. Those in congress who think default is an option claim it is possible to protect our economy by simply paying the interest on our debts while stopping or delaying payments on a number of other legal commitments. There is no way of knowing the irrevocable damage such an approach would have on our economy and the financial markets. Host treasury secretary jack lew from yesterday and there are discussions in washington in the followup to the shooting at the navy yard monday which killed 12. Here is the headline in the Atlanta Journalconstitution this morning they have a photo of the Washington Monument with flags at half staff. Thats from the washington times. K to bias partisanship back to bipartisanship in congress here is a tweet ralph is in new york, first on our democrats line. Caller good morning and good to see you back. I was thinking back to 1964 and the civil rights act. Mike mansfield was the majority leader in the senate and Everett Dirksen was a minority leader in the senate and they both sponsored the civil rights act. I dont think you will see that kind of art partisanship anymore. The House Republicans are too extreme. To shuthink they tried down the National Labor relations board, i dont think it will happen and thats my comment. Host thank you, rochester, new york picayune, mississippi on our republican line. Caller i would like to remind you that this is what our forefathers put into effect for checks and balances. We have the country divided now, almost 50 50 and half the country does not want us going into more debt and the other half does. This is what our forefathers put into effect. We need to do some cutting back before we keep increasing our debt or we are going to go bankrupt. That is simple economics and thats how it is. Host thank you. This is from the washington post. Here is antioch, california, independent line. Wish everyone would keep in mind one thing its not that the other side is just wrong but my side might be wrong or anyones given side. God has not tapped anyone on the shoulder and given them the truth. What i would like to see happen is that they can wait a year on the implementation of the health care. Time, thee republicans could agree to fund the government but fully fund the implementation of obama care. Thats really all i have to say. Host thank you. We are joined by telephone, good morning. Guest good morning. This what is going on with scheduled meeting this afternoon with House Republican conference . What decisions do they have to make . Guest all eyes are going to be on the house gop particularly after the reporting last night that it looks like speaker john ,oehner, according to sources is going to move forward with putting a bill to the house floor that would include the language that would block healthcare law, the the Affordable Care act, the socalled obamacare. The two threshold questions before anyone goes further is does that turn out to be what the house decides to do . The second question is at what spending level is that done . Dollars 88 alien 988 billion spending level . That was in a proposal from about a week ago. The 967 going to be that is in a proposal that a number of house conservatives have already drafted . That will be the first threshold questions. Which number and does it defund obamacare . Host on defunding obamacare, that was part of a discussion last week. The plan was to offer this continuing resolution that was also pared. What happened than the madelican conference that them have to raise the white flag and go another way . Plan, whichriginal i heard was fairly wellliked on that does not necessarily bode well for some people in the house among the republicans when the senate says the plan is ok what they wanted to do was basically to get into a situation where it was not going to have been in the bill itself. Technical,ting too they basically were going to have a situation where it would have required the senate to hold a vote on defunding the Health Care Law but that would no weight in peril in peril the continuing resolution from passing the senate as is and going on to president obama without actually defunding the Health Care Law. What sounds like what will happen now is they will try to move forward with something that would require quite a bit of to getng in the senate rid of the defunding of the Health Care Law and choir the bill to go back to the house for further consideration. That compresses the timeline. Host this discussion of the cr neither the house nor the senate has passed a spending bill . Aest right, the house has number of their regular appropriation bills but they ran into a wall once they started dealing with domestic spending or nonsecurity spending. Process just, the never really got off the ground. Democrats in the senate contended it because there was objection from some of the same senators who are leading the defund obamacare push. Some of the same senators were conference onto a a budget resolution with the house without some preconditions that the democrats were thought were untenable. Host how many more working days in the house and the senate . Guest the number was almost moot particularly in the house. At this point, not everyone ofects, barring some kind miraculous agreement, that the house will begin next week. That is actually a scheduled recess for the house. There is already talk, at least in the house and if necessary in the senate, of weekend work, because of the way the calendar falls this year, september 30, the end of the current fiscal year happens to fall on a monday. I would not make too many plans right now for the weekend of the 28th and 29th. Host you can follow his work at roll call. Com. Back to your calls and comments. How important is bipartisanship in congress with these discussions underway on the end of the fiscal year . Our democratic line is next. Caller thank you for taking my call. We needit definitely bipartisanship in the house and the senate. It seems the tea moneyand all the big special Interest Groups, they are making it impossible for republicans to go center towards the democrats to make any kind the sequester everyone agrees it is a bad thing. Nobody is willing to budge to where we can get that out of the way. It scares me to death the way everything is in the world. Theyational security if cannot get through that, how are they going to get anything else done . It scares me. Host rochester, new york, republican line, thanks for waiting. Caller thanks for taking my call. Partisan the bipartisan is very important. The republicans have a problem in that they are being pulled too far right by people like Rush Limbaugh and laura ingram and those kind of people. Rush limbaugh once the republicans to fail so that he can have the democrats running things so he can yell and scream about the democrats screwing things up all the time. Theother problem is that has not been running under regular order for years. There are many decent center of the road democrats that would have loved to work with the republicans and cut down spending but harry reid wont let them because he wont let regular order to avail. That is a big underreported story. If we would get back to regular order in the senate, and have Rush Limbaugh say republicans are oh k instead of telling everybody how rotten they are he is Barack Obamas best friend. Rush limbaugh wants barack obama to be in office so he can make more money. It sounds crazy but thats the truth. That thether issue house and senate have to deal with is the farm bill. The food stamps and nutrition assistance programs this is the headline in usa today. There is a likelihood the house will take of this legislation again in the coming days. Back to calls new york city, independent line. What do you think of bipartisanship in congress . Caller you have and ask one show. I am a professor. Let me give you an observation of president obama. Detroit declared bankruptcy. The president has spent all of this capital and all this time going to the congress to bomb syria. These insurgents are funded by indi arabia and the rockets and men and ships and so to 10oing to be up billion. What you see with the chinese i see it in the university the americans the chinese have sent around the world people to get business, to get jobs in their country. We have spent, over the last 10 up to 122 years, trillion to send our military worldwide. Lets not jobs. Thats really an expense. One last point outurope, it was brought verizon ofretaps by new york organizations and the un and the eus Office Brings back the time of watergate. Thank you very much. You have an excellent show. Ost as a related fallout from the nsa story announced the white house to yesterday. Here is a note on syria from the front page of the New York Times. \ also, al jazeera has a different take east brunswick, new jersey, democrats good morning. Morning, i would like to say that the republicans keep going up against president obama since he has been in office. Its because their Main Objective is to try and get him out of office. He has already won two elections. The American People have voted him in. This occurring they are trying to create to try to mess up the president , its only hurting the American People. It is hurting the country and creating a dysfunctional government. So, by going after the president , the result is we all pay the price. Feel that its a shame that weve gotten to this level of bickering and hostility towards each other. We need to really look at to make betterry decisions as far as our leadership are concerned. Thats basically all i wanted to say. I think the president has tried to help the American People as every time he and does, he gets slapped in the face. Outmany times can he come and ask the republicans to meet him halfway . Host thanks for your comments. Here are a couple of twitter comments here is South Carolina on a republican line caller good morning, sir. I appreciate getting a chance to talk. This deal with syria, i yourt understand that if are going to strike someone, why in the world would you tell them what, where, when, and how . That is one of the stupidest things i have ever heard and i am retired military. Served withed and i many wonderful officers. I cannot visualize. You are not owing to tell the opposition what you are going to do. Why would you . To say youre going to have a very small strike i think you are setting yourself up for even more problems. Shootingt know who is these chemicals for sure. They dont know who the opposition is. Host take your comments and apply that to the issue we are talking about which is partisanship. The president came to Congress Seek support on the military strike. Was that the right move . Caller it was the right move. I think he has been so indecisive on so many things and changed his mind so many times, you dont know what to think. I dont trust him and i short dont trust that guy from russia. I cannot think of too many people especially on the democratic side if anything goes wrong, the first thing they say is is is the revolt of the republicans. It is the fault of the republicans. I prayed that obama would be a wonderful president. I thought he would do right by the American People but he does not. He spends more money you can shake a stick at and we cannot afford to go to war anyway. Host this is from our independent line from connecticut caller i have been voting libertarian. I prefer a pluralized government instead of bipartisanship. We would be much better off. The government gets involved in is a disaster. College education used to be affordable. Everything the government does is a disaster. Thereason is because government does not work. American people are so twisted. Thats what happens with public education. Im expected to believe a bureaucrat in dc can fix healthcare . Give me a break. We are in so much trouble in this country. It is so pathetic. Thomas jefferson said it best the natural progression is for government to get bigger and liberty to waiver. Limited Government Works best. That in america anymore. We are doomed. They are a bunch of pathetic morons who call cspan. Host some comments by email lets go to tampa, our democrats line. How important is bipartisanship to you in congress . Caller my name is rocky. How are you doing . That im 65 to say years old and have it in political the last half of my life. I used to vote for the person and not the party although i have always been a registered democrat. Since the conservative republican right has gotten so the last few years, i will not vote for any republican because if they get in office, they dont do what the conservative right does, they are not elected. If they bring down the government like they say that some of them want to do, it will hurt the World Economy and hurt us. It seems like they dont care. All they want is their agenda and nothing else. There are some good middleof theroad republicans. They are afraid to do what they want to do because they know they will not be reelected. I think its time for them to not worry about getting reelected and do whats best for this country. And i calleda marco rubios office every other day and let him know what i believe. The republicans were saying that andont want to go to war we are following what her constituents want and when it comes to common sense gun control, 85 of the people want some kind of gun control and the republicans will not have anything to do with it. Host lets move onto our republican republican line in tonawanda, new york. Hi, i am calling to say that the government is set up so we have different opinions and right now we have two major parties and some of the people are wild eyed dreamers and some of them believe they they are realists. Is ank what we really need strong leadership to bring these people together. And to find compromise instead of taking sides. Thats my opinion. I think we need some better leadership so that we can find compromise. Host you think it is a leadership issue on both sides . Caller i absolutely do. We need a good leader to bring people together and then we can reach compromise. I believe there is leadership issues, definitely, the leadership needs to look at how to get the people together and stop taking sides. We have two very strong different ideals going on here. One of them is more dreamy and sort of draw the line and realism. There has to be a place in between would be better for everyone. Host thanks for your call. We are asking you this morning about your view of how important bipartisanship is in congress. Independentthe Budget Office of congress released their longterm outlook for over 25 years. Term outlook long in terms of spending could not basis spains. [video clip] line remains the same as it was last year the federal budget is on a course that cannot be sustained indefinitely. Baseline which largely follows current law, we project that federal debt held by the public would rise from 73 of gdp today, already high by our standards, to 100 of gdp 25 years from now. The before incorporating harmful economic effects of the rising debt. To be sure, the deficit has past few years. Shrunk hermetically during the from nearly 10 of gdp in 2009, year. Ut four percent this we expect under current law, the deficit would decline further to about two percent of gdp. Doug elmendorf, the director of the congressional Budget Office. They also reprised released a report on poverty. Looking at gumby the wall street journal looking at the wall street journal s go to houston, texas betty is in texas, good morning. Caller i appreciate you discussing Congress Getting along this morning. My husband is a war wounded veteran who is catastrophically injured in a hospital bed at home and them not getting along in washington seriously affects catastrophically injured war veterans. By not getting the health care they need and