President obama discusses issues he would like to focus on now that the shutdown is over. He would like to see honks pass a budget, work on Immigration Reform, and the farm bill. Our first 35 minutes is devoted to what you would like to see congress focus on now that the shutdown is over. You can pick up one of the president s topics or maybe you have topics of your own. Here is how you can reach out to us what would you Like Congress to focus on now that the shutdown is over. If you want to reach out to us is oural media, cspanwj twitter page. You can send this email to act journal cspan. Org. That hell has a part of that weekly address l refers to that weekly address for our first 45 minutes we would like for you to give us a sense of what you would like to see and for congress to focus on. Here is how you can do so. If you want to give us a call tweets are always excepted. As always you can give us an e mail. From georgia on our republican line. Good morning. I am really excited this morning. I think we need to take cutting spending. Tom brady is one of the best. I predict someday he will be president. We have people like tom price from georgia. We need to cut spending. Are too many federal employees in washington. There is far too much government. We have a real interesting primary. What we have to do is elect more taxpayers like tom price, tom grace. Host you mentioned spending this groupt about that will work on spending issues e do think that will go anywhere, especially since the have to come up spending issues . Do you think they will go anywhere, especially since they will have to come up with caller i hope they can come up together with a bipartisan plan. History has always been the democrats want to spend and we republicans think this is far too much spending. We have to cut spending. We have a 17 trillion debt. We have to cut spending. That is why i think tom grace is such a great leader. This is sheila from carrollton georgia. What should be the focus . Caller i agree with the man who is just on. I think it is a misnomer that democrats are always spending and republicans are always cutting. What i think should happen right now is someone needs to take the. Ead in the house i feel very sorry for this country and what we have been through. Have wastion i do cutting government workers. Think a lot of us found out that government workers are very necessary. You cannot cut government workers. They do a very good job. Dealt with Staff Members for 30 years on both sides of the political spectrum. They do a very good job. Of help,ed any kind call them, call your congress people. What is your congress focused on now what should congress focus on now, that is the topic. Our next caller is from kentucky. Caller we need to get the gangs of government. There is a book called immigrants and republicans. We need to get back to the constitution and bill of rights. We need to get some new people who arent trying to sabotage the country. Host what issue would you like to see congress tackle . First we need to focus on the debt. I think it was 300 billion increase trade i think the republicans are doing the right thing. Obviously theres not much they can do because obama is just going to continue to keep the country shut down. The book you quoted, that is jesse ventura. Why do you like that book or at least like its ideas . It just focuses on getting back to the constitution and what the country was originally founded on. Host a couple of Facebook Comments this morning, a couple of questions on what you would like to see congress focus on. Twitter on Facebook Davey is calling us on our republican line. Good morning. It is true that the Government Shutdown is over. Minute it is over 70 trillion. Nobody cares about them. It is rising. I think the people and the American People they have to hear our voices. Thank you very much. Host that is davey from new york. To get a sampling of ideas and thoughts on what the congress should focus on, the collar has mentioned the 17 trillion debt story in the washington times. Trumped a record 23 billion on thursday. Equals a little over 17 trillion according to figures from the treasury department. 320 8 billion increase shattered the previous high. Government was replenishing its stock of extraordinary measures. , willl funds, if borrower try to avoid bump into the debt ceiling. The president used his weekly address to talk about the issues he would like to see. Cells we addressed those at the top the show. Here are his own words. [video clip] there are three places were democrats and republicans can Work Together right away. We should pursue a balanced approach to responsible budget. One that grows our economy faster and shrinks our longterm deficits further. Theres no choice between growth and fiscal responsibility. We need both. We are making a serious mistake if the budget does not focus on what you are focused on, creating more jobs. If we are going to free up resources for the things that help us grow, education infrastructure and research we should cut what we dont need and close Corporate Tax holes that do not Corporate Tax holes that do not create jobs. Our deficits are shrinking, not growing. We should finish the job of firkin a fixing our broken immigration system. Theres a Broad Coalition that is behind this effort from Business Leaders to faith leaders to law enforcement. It would grow our economy, it would secure our borders, the senate has artie passed a bill with strong bipartisan support. And now the house should to. The majority of americans think this is the right thing to do. It can and should get done by the end of this year. Bill, onepass a farm that americas farmers and ranchers can depend on, one that depends choate that protects children and adults in times of need. Host if you were to look at the flags of the Capitol Building you would notice that a are at half staff paid that is to commemorate the passing of former house former House Speaker tom foley, who passed away. He served from 19 29 to 2013. He lived from 1929 to 2013. Supported Ronald Reagan, a that is in the Washington Post. Bill young this is the right up all that a profile of are presented of bill young, who passed away yesterday. In our remaining time, what you Want Congress to focus on next. This is our next call for maryland. The first thing obama wants to be done is budget. I look at it this way, if they start working on immigration [indiscernible] we pay off back taxes. Know they will have to pay. [indiscernible] tried Immigration Reform, congress has tried Immigration Reform several times. Why do you think this is the time that it may happen . Here is my point. If they do not step up to make ffort we can look to the last election. Republicans dont get any good [indiscernible] i am also a Small Business owner. Host thank you. Iron patriot from twitter says back to the phones. Middletown pennsylvania, republican line, good morning. I am a republican, and i am a fisherman. Do is createo about a million jobs. I called or emailed mark cuban. If he doesnt get ahold of me by today i am going to email jeff bezos. I have figured out where all of the poor people and the people on welfare and Social Security and disability can make 50,000 per year just working 40 hours a week. That is all i have to say. Host did you address what congress can do as far as jobs or entrepreneurship or things like that . I dont think they have any ideas at all. Senator tom cruise shut down the senator ted cruz shutdown the congress. He is as stupid as obama. Host james is up next from chattanooga, tennessee on the democrats line. Iller my name is james and am a 64yearold vietnam honored combat veteran. I hope you will allow me the time to speak. Of c been an observer span for quite a number of years. We get thiscut pushed back constantly from the republicans and tea party. Get over it. The democrats won. Change. Try wanted a this Republican Tea Party he makes this long pronounced speech about his political stance. It is so ridiculous that cspan can let this man get through what i can barely get through once a year. Talks get through and just like he will tell you he is a Tea Party Republican and a chairman of the board and all for this and all for that and calls everybody by first name. He can get through when he wants to. This amazes me that cspan will let this happen. A couple of things. What should congress focus on next . Caller what my congress should is tea party issues Going Forward. The president has opposed his agenda. He is willing to work with everyone. It is not just the republicans or tea party. It is because he is black. People, get used to it. He is going to be black. He is from america. He is not from kenya. These give it a break. from ohio on the independent line. A win the from ohio on the independent line. Owen from ohio on the independent line. Amazing that they have been after the president since inauguration. My leader in the senate made a statement on the floor that his number one goal is to make sure that the president was not reelected. It is such an indication why we it could be the topics the present topics the republicans want. If it comes from the positive and they will oppose it. President that ran on a platform in 2008. He institutionalizes certain projects that he ran on. He ran a second time. People of america elected him. I am not quite sure what the problem is. They have to focus on manufacturing jobs. That has been a strength of america. Tied into that has to be education and immigration. If you realize some of the ghtest minds in america when people migrated United States. We have to do to a balanced budget a balanced approach. Off of twitter he is the chairman of the House Energy Commerce committee. In thehe lead story Detroit Free Press this morning from the wall street journal paul from florida, republican line, what is your focus on gecko on . Caller your previous caller, thank you for your service. Simple, how out of touch are these guys in d. C. E in d. C. . Republicans, democrats, black, white, hispanic, heterosexual, transgender, what we need to focus on is the economy and jobs. These guys are so out of touch in d. C. And is it any surprise we are in the shape we are in the echo have a great weekend, pedro. We are in . Have a great weekend, pedro. Host next caller. Caller i could not agree with the last caller more. We have to focus on jobs, on growing our economy, and cutting government and cutting spending is not going to do that. Austerity cuts over and over show that it will shrink the economy. The more people we have come in the more money we invest, the more people we have working, the more people we have paying taxes , our deficit goes down. If we continue these cuts and continue cutting jobs all we are doing is hurting ourselves. We are squeezing people tighter and tighter. Doing nothing to pull out of this recession in a way that is going to help the average american person. If it is not found in austerity cuts, where would you find that bill . I would find it in investment and infrastructure, investment in manufacturing, and paying jobs for low skilled or trade workers. That is where we need to put our money. Person e american that is what we need. I think that would help us greatly. Host randy from pennsylvania. Caller good morning. I would like to see our debt get reduced over time. I think we need major entitlement reform. I would also like to see some foreignpolicy changes in i dont think we should beginning out any foreign aid over the next 20 years. If you do that over a long. Of time along period of time that adds up. It will go a long way in at in reducing our debt. Randy from pennsylvania. If youre just joining us. If youre just joining us, we are talking about what congress should be focused on in light of the shutdown. Immigration brought up, manufacturing, investment. We will continue to take your calls for the next 15 or 20 minutes. We spoke about the passing of speaker fully speaker fully foley this speaker week. He onceyou a flavor, spoke about the most difficult part of being a speaker. He talks about one of the things he had to deal with, strong personalities within his own party. [video clip] think werly i both recognized that one of the problems of the speakership is to deal with very strong and powerful voices within ones own party. I came to the speakership of the house as a former Committee Chairman, but not the most senior of them. Others have been powerful and effective legislators and Committee Chairman. They held a specific knowledge and experience in their fields. Not only was it the committee but the subCommittee Chairman that has proliferated. I think we had 160 democrats in the house of representatives. Sometimes there were conflicting jurisdictions between appropriations subCommittee Chairman and authorizing Committee Chairman or subCommittee Chairman. There is a problem sometimes of managing strong effective and powerful personalities. That is one of the jobs i did not anticipate when i became speaker. Much is parsing a jurisdictional disputes, trying to mediate between conflicts and approaches to various committees and assignments. It is the pitching work, as my former senator, warren magnuson, spoke about in terms of the day today work. The thoughts of the late former speaker tom foley. You can find out more of what he said and his appearances on this network at cspan. Org. Joshua is up next. He joins us from south carolina, republican line. Caller how are you doing echo doing . I think congress should continue to focus on the Health Care Bill to be delayed for a year, to cut out what needs to be cut out and replace it with better stuff. Irresponsibly, it , wedone on the basis of should pass it and see. If the democrats had to pass something without reading it and it was going to them and house i mean, in the senate and house, and they had to do it themselves, they would not do it. They continue to keep it for themselves. They are giving it to the American People but not themselves. Host not to the health care law, posit put it on pause, fix it caller than they should get rid of the fate get rid of the payroll tax and have a flat tax. That would create jobs. Host we hear a lot of people advocate for that. Why do you think it would work . Caller it would be a across theboard tax and companies would not have to pay the payroll tax that would prevent them from hiring new people. It would free up the working system. I dont think more taxes are the answer. More taxes get the government if the government spends more than they are taking and, regardless of how much taxes you are giving, the government is going to continue to have an increased that because they are spending more than they are taking in. Host this is ryan from roanoke, virginia, talking about taxes in an email this morning another email, asking you to give us your thoughts to asking you to give us your thoughts on what congress should do next . Should do next alan from los angeles california, democrat line. Hello. I want to congratulate mr. Obama on a victory over the republicans. [indiscernible] in the end they were defeated by president obama, the most powerful president history has seen in america. Our country is interest. [indiscernible] the times of new jersey highlights a story, taking a look at gay marriage its arthur from alabama, thank you for holding on on our republican line. Caller here is what i would Like Congress to do, i would like them to reread the u. S. Constitution. There are twoe words that seemingly have ignored. Those two words are general welfare. General is defined as all and welfare is need. If Everyone Needs a cell phone, why doesnt everyone get a cell phone free of charge echo the 10th amendment to the constitution, they have ignored that also. There is a federal department on education. Doesre in our constitution it say the federal government should take care of education. They should be left to the states. Congressmen those would refer to a specific part , allowingt to ship in them to establish these suspending statutes. I hope you have a nice day. Cap from louisiana. Cat from louisiana. The biggest thing we can take the cars, get rid of them, and do the vouchers. Take the food stamp cards, make them is vouchers. We dont have to worry about nobody selling or buying the wrong things and furthermore, just like the gentleman just said, cell phones for people that is on welfare, for people that are on food stamps. Phones are aell luxury, it is not a have to have. The money theyre spending on that can go to the child go to the college children. I am not understanding why they cannot see these particular things that they can do . How did you come to focus on those two things . I have worked at a grocery store. I have seen all these chips. They are buying them, they are selling them. I have woman from foreign countries. They had a lady that came in to my line and she told me she had children. She said im not going to have anymore, i said i cannot afford it. She said government pays for children. Thats what she told me. She serious. She is so serious. She told me government pay for you, you dont have to worry about it. I want to say, that is taxpayers money. They have children, they cannot afford them. Have, thehildren they more government gives them. That is not right. I am saying that as a democrat. How do they react when you say that . Many of them agree with me. Getfully this message does to them. Something needs to be done with the food stamps. Cut . Think they need to be no. But i think they need to find another weapon to help his people with food. Host if you happened to you fo