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Government and to insure that we do not default. and he will have that conversation. and you know, look, we all realize, has put then ares, they ve gotten themselves in a box here in the house and it s put them in a difficult position and they re under a lot of pressure, a lot of it applied by republicans, and there s a simple way out. do the democratic thing. pass a bill. see if it can win a majority. put a bill on the floor, see if the majority votes yes. be surprised and delighted by the fact that a number of your own republicans would vote yes. by some estimates, quite a number of them. take that as a win. and move on. and then we can insure that the government doesn t, rather that the economy doesn t default, the united states doesn t default. we raise the debt ceilinging in an orderly fashion without drama and delay. ....
Staff furloughed, they can only do but oech. we do know on capitol hill house republicans do plan on introducing a bill that would fund nih. but of course, once it passes the house, it has to move on to the senate. by definition, if a child has cancer, that s a medical emergency and they ve got to deal with that right away. rene, thanks very much. it s only october 2nd. even if the shutdown is resolved today, we re still we still need to look forward to mid-october when the government hits what s called the debt ceiling. on that note, a new poll indicates most americans believe it would be a bad thing for the country if the ceiling is not raised. 56% think it would be a bad thing. 38% think it would be a good thing. we asked if the debt ceilinging is not raised, who would be responsible. 53. ers wos blame republicans, 31% point the finger at president ....
The debt ceilinging is going to come up. if we don t come together instead of fighting peripheral political issues that aren t going to get us anywhere, we just had an election. i mean we re not going to we re not going into a presidential election. we just had a presidential election. so our only difference on that i agree with bill some of us would say these other issues are not peripheral. when we re receiving phone calls from constituents saying they ve been laid off because of the affordable health care act when in our own state, you had one of the largest insurers saying 50,000 people are not going to get insurance because of the health care act. home depot laying off insurance 20,000, u.p.s. in my district, as well, 15,000 people. trying to part time america ten years ago, that s the company. this is a company telling spouses since congressman pascrell, you brought up the debt ceiling, i m going to hold you to a firm booking 17 days from now, ....
House leadership go through the motions, which they re not even done with tonight or i guess early this morning, they re still going to have another vote, probably the next few hours to revote on what they did earlier tonight and then say there should be negotiations effectively which the senate said give me a break. this is nonnegotiable. it s really up in the air and depends how the markets react in the morning when they open and the kind of blowback that members of congress, particularly republicans get because democrats have made it very clear they are not budging, nothing. they will not give up on anything that is not a clean no strings attached bill to fund the government. they feel that just when it comes to basic negotiations, if they give in on this which is just a six-week bill to get the government open, they are going to be completely in a horrible position when it comes to the big negotiations on the debt ceilinging in a few weeks which of course, if that doesn t work out, ....
About the budget may happen around that date. so maybe november 15th could be something that doesn t have the pushback that we ve seen on this particular continuing resolution. okay. david, so we could hit the debt ceiling as early as october 17th. if congress doesn t vote to increase the ceiling, the u.s. would default for the first time ever. how much is at stake here for the president if not the country? a lot s at stake. even though the president is trying to project an air he s going on with other priorities and going to draw the line, especially the debt ceilinging is a big deal. not only the budget but the debt ceiling could affect the u.s. economy. we saw two years ago, even though they made the deadline and they did lift the debt ceiling, you recall in the summer of 2011, they were downgraded by one of the wall street rating houses for the first time ever. that did hurt the economy to some extent analysts say. if it took longer, there is more uncertainty in the economy. th ....