We will see you here tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. For tomorrows washington journal. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] it is day 14 of the Government Shutdown and both chambers of congress are in session later today after a rare week meeting for both bodies. No agreement has been reached to reopen the government and raise the debt limit. The House Chamber will gaveling at noon eastern for morning hour, 2 00 legislative work. The house continuing their approach to take a shortterm funding bills to reopen parts of the federal government. This afternoon, they deal with one dealing with indian affairs. Lawmakers will continue to debate on a measure in the senate to lift the debt ceiling until 2014. According to treasury secretary jack lew, nations Borrowing Limit will be met this thursday. For an update on the current shutdown talks, we spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter. For more on the talks goin
Working for that pay. The publicans have refused to put on the floor legislation that will open the peoples government. Membershad over 150 sign a petition to open the government. And bring legislation to the floor. Askingscores of members for unanimous consent of the body to do just that. So that the government could be open today. A point of order was just made. Any member of the house would hre been in order to ask for floor. E put on the we will discuss that at greater length. The American People want the government opened. They want us to talk. They want us to reach an agreement. They see no need. We see no need of having literally millions of people shut out of their workplace while the republican majority shuts down the government and tries to hold a gun at our head to agree on things that, in a democratic process, should be dealt with not at the point of a gun, but at the table of conference, to which they have refused to go over the last five months. That me yield to my collea
Things with give and take, things that you want, things that the republicans want, attached to a clean c. R. Do you have a policy side card, not just a process side card, thats new. No, i understand the question, and its a smart one. But let me be clear. Our position has always been that, at the very least, congress ought not to allow the government to shut down. The republicans should not shut down the government and the house of representatives should do what the senate did, which is pass a clean c. R. , funding the government at levels set in the Previous Fiscal Year by largely republicans. So it has also been our position that we envision a bigger, broader, and more sub stan active budget compromise that achieved some of the goals the president has been talking about for a long time, and those goals include continued deficit reduction. They include, you know, dealing with the problem with the sequester, and they include key investments in areas of our economy and our middle class t
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