special challenge to democrats. listen to what he had to say. >> what about the vets? do the democrats not feel it is important to make sure the pain is eased on them? what about the sick children that need access to clinical trials? is it not as important to ease the pain of the shutdown for them or is it just the federal employees the democratic minority thinks is important. >> now, leader cantor is talking about some smaller spending bills that the house passed in the last few days, funding things like the national institutes of health to make sure people get access to clinical trials and veterans administration, national parks. that's what he is arguing. on the democratic side they're saying they believe everyone in the government should be put back to work. they're pushing for the house to bring to a vote a spending bill that would open everything all at once and leave the larger budgetary discussions until later. let's listen to minority leader