when you have government shutdowns what happens is you say i'm not going to be paid, the problem is they have to pay the members because the constitution says so. >> and because they did their bill appropriating before we got to the situation we are in now. these people who now say i don't want to take my paycheck, it is not an option. it is more for show. >> we could put in an escrow or something like this. some people say they should change the constitutional put that in. you never got dozens of the constitution? a backbench congressman in the early 1990s, then it became a big deal around here, a guy named john boehner. shannon: what happens now? many questions. we have folks who have answers with our power panel when we come back.