american health care reforming a, which will take care of the issues with health care moving forward. those are the positive moves we node to be making. we need to be locking at that debt ceiling. there is much we can do. if we work together, we can achieve it. >> how willing are the democrats to do some kind of compromise here instead of just watching this implode into the shutdown? >> you know, what we're willing to do is make sure that we pass a clean continuing resolution. i sit on the appropriations committee, chris, a continuing resolution is just that. you continue the government's functions while we work out budget-related matters, to make sure that we can keep the government functioning. we don't attach extrainious measures. we don't block, we don't put employers as the republicans did the other night in charge of access to contraception. that was a little watch provision that they added back to the continuing resolution. they want to delay the