Thoughtse ask for your on the debt ceiling. We ask how confident you are that we can reach an agreement before the deadline. If you are outside the u. S. , it is 2025853883. You can also join us on all of your favorite social media pages , on twitter and facebook or e mail us at journal at c span. Org. A very good columbus day morning to you. I want to take you to the latest headlines from around the country on this that mimic impasse on this debt limit impasse. Heres the front page of the journalconstitution. The lobe over to the front page of the financial times. We will reach you from the front page story of the Washington Times today. For more on the talks that are going on behind the scenes, i want to bring on billy house, National JournalCongressional Correspondent was been helping us cover the twists and turns of what is going on. Billy house, good morning to you. Thanks for coming back and joining us. Heres a story from the National Journal this morning. That sense of optimism coming from . Optimism, they are boiling the issues down to spending cap levels for the next andmonths or even beyond the length of the debt ceiling extension. The problem is a series of disagreements on length of time and the other aspects of other concessions that might be added to this package has agreed upon. Was a schedule of meetings today . What are you watching today . Meetings will begin in the morning to join leaders. Those are behind the scenes. Officially, the Senate Reconvenes at two. House number two took off saturday on what can be described as a half, house members . They will be returning officially in the afternoon but around 6 30 p. M. For votes. What is the role that the house is playing right now . It seems like at the end of last week the house was inching towards a deal with the white house, but now its focus is seem to turn to the senate. One thing that House Republicans who control the chamber are worried about is that something might land in their lap from the senate. With just hours to go before thursdays debt ceiling deadline. What theyre going to Start Talking about in earnest today is whether they should simply wait to be jammed on something or come up with something yet again to pitch themselves over to the senate. Ideas could be much of the same thing that they have artie done. Airing an extension of any timeframe and reopening government but attaching concessions like repeal the medical device tax which goes toward paying for a small , theon of Obamacare Affordable Care act, or other things like the socalled bitter amendment which would end Health Insurance subsidies for numbers of congress and their staffs. Who dealmakers right now . The front page of the Washington Post close quote today essentially it is reason mcconnell but it in reality it is their lieutenants because of some past tensions. Most of the talks will go through probably senator schumer of new york for the democrats and Lamar Alexander for the republicans. Over on the house side, paul ryan has in recent weeks been in the background, but in recent days has emerged as a major player trying to put something together. Who is getting a lot of attention is senator Susan Collins of maine, a republican. She was on cnns state of the union yesterday. I want to say onto play little bit of what she said. The fact is we have a responsibility to govern and we are continuing to talk. I am still hopeful that at least wes art a dialogue that did not exist before we put out a plan. Realnk that i have made a contribution that way and that elements of the plan that the senators murkowski and i have put forth will end up in the final compromise. Billy house with the National Journal. What is the role that senator murkowski is playing your . Shes turned to come up with some sort of compromise plan. The problem with the socalled collins plan was that it maintain sequestration level spending through january 15. Have said at that date in early january even lower spending levels wouldve kicked in automatically. For democrats, they dont mind a shortterm agreement that would keep those low sequestration levels in effect through perhaps november 15. They have been marking up bills for the fiscal year 2014 that began in october at a much higher level. Budget negotiations to address what they think should be a repeal of parts of sequester if not all of it, they dont want to agree to some package that would keep things as they are for another five or six months, even three months. Last mission for you this morning, the shutdown situation and the debt ceiling, are these things now tied together or is there still a chance that they get solved separately . Of course the overriding concern seems to be the debt ceiling deadline on thursday. I suspect that both sides want to do everything all at once, at least for a temporary extension of both. Democrats are pushing for a more lengthy debt ceiling extension. They dont want to do with this in a few weeks. Y could put up with a again we have the holidays coming up on both fronts they realize that these would be very difficult items to get through and the Business Community does not want to have to deal with the uncertainty of both the Government Shutdown and more so a default during the holiday season. Congressionals a correspondent with National Journal. Thanks for continuing to help us follow the story. Thank you. Heres another headline from the Washington Post their code something a lot of senators are doing today is watching the financial market. Senate leaders await reaction of the Financial Markets this morning. This from the wall street journal. Another headline on that same subject comes from the New York Times. Asian markets uneasy as u. S. Debt negotiations stall. Were taking your thoughts and comments this morning on the subject. Also have an ongoing poll on Facebook Page that is facebook. Com cspan. We are asking can a debt ceiling deal be reached. Just about 50 votes so far and more folks saying that it will not be reached. Here is a comment from rob bloomer. Well be looking at our Facebook Page and twitter. Phone lines are open as well. We will start with bertha from florida this morning on our line for democrats. Good morning, bertha. Caller good morning. I just want to send a message to all the voters who sat home in 2010 plan to sit home in 2014 you have no one to blame but yourself for letting these extremists take over our country. It is not going to get better, it is going to get worse trade is not about democrats or republicans, we have extremist in both. You make sure they share your values before you go and vote. Please vote. Thank you. Susan is up next from kingston, illinois on the independent line. Caller it would be better for the republicans to get all the stuff straightened out fast because the longer it takes them they look like they are more and more controlled by the tea partiers crowd the longer the obstruction goes on. Everybody knows it is the republicans who are obstructing and the gop can save itself by throwing the tea she terrorist party under the bus. Got to get rid of those tea partiers. Thank you very host host georges on our line for republicans by way of washington this morning. George, good morning. Hello . Want to say politicians vote in the administration and congress only thinks about their interests if they care about the people there should not be this big problem. If the Administration Says we are free to say our problems, [indiscernible] speechnot see the free in the u. S. George, were talking about the debt ceiling deal. We are asking our viewers are confident they are that a deal can be reached by the thursday deadline that the Treasury Department has set out. As we said some members of Congress Went on the sunday shows yesterday to talk about this issue. Heres new york senator Chuck Schumer on cbss face the nation. I am more optimistic than most of we can reach an agreement. That is one place for the House Republicans and the president were not at total loggerheads. A lot of it depends on how you define revenues and how you define entitlement cuts. Open up theld be government immediately for a. Of time before the sequester its and then have serious discussions where we might be able to undo the sequester. I am optimistic that could work. We are taking your calls and comments this morning. We want to know how confident you are that a deal can be reached before thursday. Senators are talking right now, they will be talking today, but theirs is the deadline. The Treasury Department has set out. Robert is on our line for democrats from out in california this morning. Robert, talk to us about your level of confidence on this debt ceiling issue. Caller im actually confident if the republicans can get out of the way. I would like to see the American People demand that the republicans get out of the way. Has theheir right mind confidence to think that the republicans could assist in governing this country the way and they have obstruct it person the worst Financial Condition since a great depression. This is a disgrace and the American People should be outraged with them. They couldnt get out of the way. Thank you. On a line was robert for democrats. Well go to the republican line now. David is from east hartford, connecticut. David, good morning. Caller good morning, john. Day 14 of the shutdown streak and i can hear you on the line right now. Host i can hear you, david, go ahead. Caller youre asking me how confident i am they can raise the debt leading by thursday the debt ceiling by thursday,. Host host you want to keep the Government Shutdown . Theres also this debt ceiling issue this morning that we are be couldld default if the detailing is an raise. Do think the debt ceiling should be raise in the government just a shutdown . Caller i am i hearing is a shutdown to put it that way. Andow it needs to be raised what was the compromise . , pay our bills, Something Like that . I dont know. I guess were asking each other the same question. From connecticut this morning. A few tweets coming in on this question weve asked you today. The impact on global economies of the subject of a story in New York Times. I want to show you a clip of Christine Lagarde who also went on the sunday shows yesterday. Heres a bit of that. Cracks when you are the largest economy in the world, when you are the safe haven in all circumstances as has been the into thatcant go creative accounting business. You have to honor your signature. You have to give certainty to the rest of the world and you have to make sure that your own economy is consolidating that welcome recovery that we have seen in the last few days. It impacts the entire economy. That was International Monetary fund Christine Lagarde talking about the impacts around the world. Talking about a bloomberg story on the subject. We asking you this morning three days before the Treasury Department says we will hit that deadline how confident you are that a deal can be reached. Justin is from south hills, arizona, this morning on our line for caller independents. Justin, good morning. , thank you morning for taking my call. I am at a loss for words because you just hit the nail on the byd. You made a comparison someone who wrote an article about germany defaulting on their loans. Isnt it ironic that we are basically going down that same path yucca i wont make any implications about that. One thing i was brought up to believe is that the Republican Party is a party of bad ideas. And that the Democratic Party is a party of no ideas. So when you asked me about raising the debt ceiling my question to you is why didnt anybody listen to ron paul regarding that bubble . That bubble that everybody is trying to push forward. He is to be a congressman and he used to run for president. Thats what . It is too late to vote for him for president , but we are now feeling the shortcomings of what he said was going to happen. And everybody is ignoring it. Of his son,ou make rand paul, the senator from kentucky who is also expressed concerns about going to that debt ceiling . I believe that he differs on his father regarding foreign policy, but when it comes to domestic and Economic Policy i believe they are both on the same page and he is keeping quiet because he does party. T to upset his own but he has come out and said we are in a position to negotiate. What that means is we have the party, to republican stop this from happening. Why arent we doing so . When we do have the money to pay for we dont have to go over the cliff and not be able to pay our bills. Host just in from arizona this morning. We are asking you today how confident you are that a debt ceiling deal can be reached. We have a poll on our Facebook Page. Folks are dissipating in it. More people thinking they are not confident that a deal can be reached. Those who say that it will, a few more comments from our Facebook Page. Don writes in. Were talking debt ceiling this morning. Were actually going to be having an analyst from the Bipartisan Policy Center on the next to talk about the mechanics of what actually happens after october 17, after that thursday deadline. That is in our next segment of the washington journal. Just getting your sense of how confident you are they deal can actually be reached. Michael is up next from michigan on our line for democrats. Michael, good morning. Caller yeah, good morning. I am pretty confident they will make a deal as soon as the stockmarket crashes. I think this is just a big lawyer to manipulate the stock market so that rich people can buy when stocks are very low and as soon as they do that they will sign the debt ceiling agreement and stocks will go up and everybody will make a lot of money. That is all i have to say. Just watch the money. Host michael from michigan this morning. Jim says tea parties turns save this country from itself to prevent us from going the way of detroit on a national level. That is it. One of the tweet this morning ramirez. Ph we played you a clip of senator collins from maine, a republican. Joseph ramirez writes in rob is up next from stockton, california on a line for republicans. Rob, your level of confidence you heading into thursday. Caller i dont think theyre going to make the connection. I think theres going to be a deal. I think what they should have underneath or on your orange wall there and back that congress is the federal debt calendar with the federal debt clock showing how much every 10 minutes and every hour our country goes into debt. People do want to realize and deal with the debt. Party, andhe tea even though im not a member of it, is getting a black eye because theyre bringing that tension to america saying look at the debt and everybody wants to run right past that. John . Rob from california this morning on our line from republicans. Glenys from kentucky this morning. Caller i would just like to make a comment or two. One, i think both parties are acting like twoyearolds. Two, the people that vote and put the amend their, they should not go out and vote at all when the 2014 election comes around. So that they would understand how we feel about what going on in washington dc. There is nothing going on except a big lot of stubbornness. Both sides are very stubborn. Especially the republicans. I have been registered a republican. I do not vote republican at all now. I probably wont ever vote again because of the situation delay they are going. I dont think either party will reach a debt ceiling. Those parties are too stubborn and act like they are kindergartners fighting over a toy. Boehner should be put in a room and make them work this out until they are let out. They should be kept in a room until they work this out who they are the two that are fighting against each other. I think this is ridiculous that our country is in the shape its in due to two parties that cant agree on anything. Kentucky thisfrom morning. One other story that it will show you on the debt ceiling. This from the latest issue of the Christian Science monitor. Charting the rise of the debt limits over the years line back to the early 90s. The treasury secretary says he will run out of funds on thursday to pay bills after that. The question science monitor story says should the that limit ceiling raising the routine . Often the cap on the debt ceiling has been raised without fanfare or debate. That is a recent edition of the Christian Science monitor. We are going to continue taking your calls and comments on the debt ceiling. We want to know how confident you are that a deal can be reached by thursday. It is day 14 of the Government Shutdown and plenty of stories out there on the impact of the Government Shutdown. I want to show you a clip. Yesterday former defense secretary leon panetta was on to talket the press hairc about the shutdown of governments effect on national security. We have 12 combat squadrons that have been grounded. Half of the air force is not combat ready. Weve got ships that are not being deployed. We have training rotations that have been canceled. Weve got 800,000 federal employees that have been furlough