some select parts of the federal government, really visible ones that people might complain about like, say, the v.a. or national parks. one by one republicans proposed they would just reopen things that they liked or were already missing or they were hearing complaints about, otherwise they would let the shutdown go on. tonight the house voted on three separate piecemeal bills to fund the national parks and v.a. and city government. all votes failed. so that was like plan k. plan l? maybe plan m? it s hard to keep track. is there a next plan and is it likely to work. joining me is congresswoman louise slaughter. thank you so much for being with us tonight. don t we live in interesting times, rachel. that is an ancient curse for
health care. so i think a delay certainly was in order and i m sorry i didn t get it. i understand that you and i would disagree about the health of the budget progress but where we are now is pass a continuing resolution that doesn t make policy, that s just a continuing resolution or the government stops. you obviously believe it s not worth stopping the government to try to force policy into this process. well, that s true. you are one of ten republicans who have said this is the way to go, we shouldn t have the shutdown. that s only 5% of your caucus. i think there s more. i look at this this way. we are down to the lift that we are trying to get across the curb here was the delay of the individual mandate. we d given up lots of things. we d actually made major concessions along the way.
way. and, rachel, some of the things you said i agree with but some i sharply disagree with. that won t surprise you. those 80 members committed to a shutdown, i disagree with that. e i ve never heard that privately or publicly. since i ve been in office, the house has been dysfunctional, the senate has been d dysfunctional. so what do we end up with? continuing resolutions. they aharm our country and they re not right. we were trying to express our best ideas for policy via the continuing resolution. i was one who was saying, looking i don t think that we ought to advance the affordable care act. i got a call just yesterday from
shutdown. republican house speaker john bane e boehner proposed opening just some select parts of the federal government, really visible ones that people might complain about like, say, the v.a. or national parks. one by one republicans proposed they would just reopen things that they liked or were already missing or they were hearing complaints about, otherwise they would let the shutdown go on. tonight the house voted on three separate piecemeal bills to fund the national parks and have. v.a. and city government. all votes failed. so that was like plan k. plan l? maybe plan m? it s hard to keep track. is there a next plan and is it likely to work. joining me is congresswoman louise slaughter. thank you so much for being with
because i have been hung up on this idea that every time i start researching in the conservative media and i look at transcripts of conservative talk radio hosts or i go back and look at old conservative speeches on the subject of the lesson of the 1995/1996 shutdown, i feel like i m seeing a pretty consistent revisionist history of the shutdown, didn t hurt newt gingrich losing the speakership, bob dole was just a bad candidate and clinton was going to win anyway. i feel like there is a revisionist history. is that what they re telling each other? the republicans were really riding high and president clinton was pretty much flat on his back prior to that shutdown. i looked at our polling numbers and going into that shutdown in 1995, bob dole was only behind bill clinton in the washington post poll by 6 points. coming out of that shutdown, he was behind by 16 points. and while it is true that in the