Elected the president twice when romney ran on nothing else but repealing the health care act. Ost thanks, caller the president said one of the things he would like to move on was Immigration Reform. Where do you think that goes . Guest i think comprehensive Immigration Reform is something we are going to do sooner or later. Probably in this congress, later. You would have thought after the political returns came in after the last president ial election that my friends on the other side of the aisle would be seized with this mission to correct a real imbalance demographically that happens to be terrifying if they look into the future. The more radical conservative elements and tea Party Elements have made sure that does not happen, have slowed it down or killed it. In the senate, a strong bipartisan comprehensive Immigration Reform bill came back and was passed. We have not even brought a single piece of legislation to the floor of the house for consideration. Chairman goodlatte on the judiciary committee, one of my colleagues from virginia, has decided to handle immigration on a piecemeal basis. The first thing we are going to do is secure the border. Good, but net immigration south of the border is close to zero. President obama had the largest number of deportations ever in the country. He has doubled the Border Patrol agents on our southern border from the bush administration. Bush, it was about 11,000. Under obama, it is about 22,000. The senate would double that to 44,000. They will be tripping over each other. If that is what it takes to get the other elements of comprehensive reform, there are those willing to do that. Maybe if we spent less time grandstanding about shutdown and default and more time on substantive issues such as this, maybe it would be a little higher than 9 or 10 . Host representative jerry conley gerry connolly. Thank you for your time. Coming up, we will take your calls, take a look at a couple more stories and elements that came out of the decision to open the government. We will take all those plus your calls. First, a news update from cspan radio. It is 9 0 3 a. M. Eastern time. Jobless numbers show americans it is 9 03 a. M. Eastern time. Byless numbers are distorted californias effort to clear backlogged claims. About 70,000 furloughed employees sought benefits. They are not included in the overall totals. In syria, Officials Say there is no way of knowing if an International Team is being deliberately targeted as it works to get rid of syrias chemical weapons. Car bombs and mortars have exploded close to the Damascus Hotel where the inspectors are staying. The senior official at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says the team is almost half done making syrias chemical weapon production facilities inoperable. Walk Free Foundation says slavery is far from a thing of the past. A new global index released today finds mauritania, haiti, and pakistan rank among the modern countries with the highest prevalence of slavery. Nigeriahina, pakistan, are among the worst. Those are some of the latest headlines on cspan radio. Before becoming first lady, she traveled the globe can. The globe. She collected the chinese porcelains, the blue and whites. They tended to focus on the ming and periods. They collected them their whole lives. They developed what was probably the best collection in the United States of chinese porcelains. They started collecting pewter. Here are some pieces of british pewter which would have been used for various teapots and things. Swords seems to be one of her favorite thing to collect. We have a number of them here, a variety of nationalities and shapes and sizes. Watch the program on c span. Org firstladies. We continue our series live on monday as we look at first lady eleanor roosevelt. Journalngton continues. Host a live shot of the memorial where you saw barricades during the shutdown. More people visiting at monuments have opened as the federal government has reopened and people are heading back to work in washington, d. C. For our final hour, your calls on the end of the shutdown, the extension of the debt limit and related issues. 202 5853881 is the line for republicans. 202 5853880 is the line for democrats. 202 5853882 four independent for independents. And we have set aside a line for federal workers. If you want to give us a call about what has happened, it is 202 5853883. Again, the Congress Passing the debt bill, the government reopening. The story is reflected in the papers. We want to hear mainly from you concerning your thoughts over what you have seen the last 2 1 2 weeks. Just to give you a flavor of how some of the papers have played it out, the editorial page of the new york times, this is their take. The republicans surrender after inflicting in normans damage, theouse gives up republican surrender. The only thing republicans achieved were billions of dollars in damage to the economy, harm to the nations were cut nations reputation, and a rockbottom public approval rating. Go we will read others public approval rating. We will read others as the morning goes on. Here is the hill take on it it says, ehouse stenographer was dragged off the Chamber FloorLate Wednesday night as the house voted to end the Government Shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. Ceiling. Once there, she rambled, yelling god,speaking of speakings to god, of the masons and saying that god will not be mocked. You see the incident taking place yesterday in the house of representatives. Somewhat back to normal in washington, d. C. Your thoughts on the shutdown for our last hour this morning. For republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853882 for independents. And for federal workers, 202 5853883. From georgia on our republican line, good morning. Youre on. Caller yes, sir. I would like to address host you are on. Go right ahead. Caller i would like to address representative connollys statement to a caller that cal led in. Host just go. You will hear a delay. Go ahead with your question or comment, please. Upset about a couple things he referred to as tea party members. I voted republican because i [indiscernible] host we are having a little problem with connection. Let me see if we can rectify that. Florida, democrats line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Thank you for the program. Representative, you are doing a great job at articulating your thoughts and what is happening in congress. I do want to comment on what a caller said earlier. A lot of right wing republicans say about whats not working in howell obamas policy and democratic policies are not working and muddying the waters what is not working and how obamas policy and democratic policies are not working and muddying the waters. Problem and a major really destroy this country, republican policies. This speculation that democrats and obamas policies are going to destroy the country is ridiculous. It is already proven that the republican policies have, deregulation, tax policy that disproportionately benefited the wealthy, no Health Care Insurance improvements, deficits created. And this was all in one of the healthiest economies that was ever left to a president. This president that was left one of the worst economies that was ever left to a president has created jobs, closed the deficit, done some good things. The policies of the republicans are what is not working. I need the democrats to really start camping up the language. Language. Mping up the host how would you advise the democrats to best address the issues of debt . Caller i think they are doing a good job with their proposals that they have reasonable reform. Asonable tax i know we just recently increased taxes on the wealthy 3. 6 , and it was a major factor on why the deficit went from billion. Lion to 7 it helped significantly. Keep doing what you are doing, democrats. Watch cspan every day. I see what you guys are fighting for. My only suggestion would be amp up the language. Let regular joe americans know how terrible the republican policies are. Host leesburg, virginia, up next. A federal worker. Caller how are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller it was really difficult and terrible for federal workers and federal contractors, who were basically put on two weeks of unpaid leave and they dont get anything back. Im working for a private Company Helping out the federal government. They told us to find new jobs because the situation is so incredibly unstable. Colore with the previous that the democrats do need to stand firm previous caller that the democrats you need to stand firm. Need toemocrats do stand firm. We do need to control our spending in responsible ways. We have to make them incredibly loud and clear. They talk a lot about the cpi, social security, things we have in common with bipartisan agreements things that we are willing to do and have been willing to do. It is all about the debt that we have. Host for you for load . Furloughed . E you caller by the grace of god, i was not furloughed. My company was pushed down to 15 . Host the House Budget Committee has been tasked to come up with budget suggestions. Here they are. The four of us on the ranking , we had the four of us a very good conversation. We decided to discuss how we are going to proceed over breakfast. We want to look for ways to find Common Ground, to get a budget agreement. Our goal is to get the debt under control, to do smart deficit reduction, and to do things that can grow the economy and get people back to work. Those are our shared goals. We are going to find Common Ground and create a budget process that achieves that. Thats what we are beginning to talk about. Is exactly ryan right. We had a good conversation over breakfast this morning as we accepted the challenge that has been handed to us over the few short coming weeks. We need to make sure our economy is growing and that people are back to work and we can do the job we were sent here to do, find Common Ground between our two budget resolutions and set up half forward said a path forward. Some people ask why this will be different. What i would say is not talking guarantees failure. Talking doesnt guarantee success, but if you dont get together, obviously you cannot move forward. Nobody can guarantee success. What we can say is if we dont make the effort and get the talk, that would guarantee failure. Chairman murray is very knowledgeable about these issues and a strong leader. I talked to a number of the Democratic Senators last night and they were excited about being on a Conference Committee and look forward to participating. , are is a lot we can do number of things i know we can agree on, and i hope we could agree on. We dont want to raise expectations. I think there are some things we could do. Paul ryan, as most of you know, is dedicated to mastering the tails of this budget. I think his leadership puts us in a position where we may be able to accomplish something. I hope so. [no audio] [indiscernible] specific amount in dollars of deficit reduction youre aiming for . The supercommittees goals were much larger and broader. We have a challenge to have a reconciliation between the Senate Budget and the house budget. Those issues are all of the table. We will be talking about all of them. We job is to make sure have put forward a spending and budget passed for this congress in the next budget path for this next congress in the next year or two or three. We are going back to regular order. This is the budget process. The house and senate pass a budget. You come together to try to reconcile the differences. That is the way the budget law is supposed to work. Ofs is the founders vision the constitution working. We have not had a budget since 2009. We think it is high time to Start Talking together and reconcile our differences. It is premature to get into how we are going to do that. [indiscernible] job over the next eight weeks is to find out what we can agree on. We have a great we are going to look at everything in front of us. We know it is going to be a challenge, but we believe we can find Common Ground. What is your continuing view that you can get to yes if you keep negotiating . I put a statement out last night explaining my concerns. I want to have a budget agreement that works for the country. I want to have a budget agreement that gets the debt under control and does right by future generations and helps us grow the economy. Let me answer that as well. Chairman ryan knows im not going to vote for his budget. I know that hes not going to vote for mine. We are going to find a Common Ground that we both can vote on. That is our goal. How do you balance the short term [indiscernible] that is what we are going to be discussing. We will let you know. The house budget chairman, paul ryan, the Senate Budget chair, patty murray, their respective ranking members. The initial breakfast meeting today, taking a look at the conference that will take place to settle up the house and Senate Budgets. A lot more discussion underway. Joining us on the phone, francis rose of federal news radio. What are the challenges these sides meet as they go forward . Guest the executive branch and inside workings of the operations of the government is exactly what one of the questioners just put two the leaders put to the four budget leaders. How do you get the guidance them and framework that they need to be able to plan how they are going to operate their executive Branch Agencies . Host they both have said it is too early to talk. They know where they stand as far as opinions are concerned. I guess that will play into discussions. Guest both the career employees and political appointees say they missed the january deadline for sequestration, they missed the march deadline for sequestration and patched something together at the last minute, now they have missed this one. There is not a lot of optimism in the federal agencies that they will be done by january 15 this time around. Host what does that mean for government workers . What happens today . Guest everyone is supposed to be back to work already, if today is your normal work day. The discussion i was having with people yesterday afternoon, even as we expected the house and senate were going to pass this and president obama would sign it last night would be that it would happen to late in the day for anything official to happen. The office of management and budget and the office of Personnel Management surprised everybody last night by saying today, thursday, would be the first day back after the Government Shutdown. If today is your normal day, you are supposed to be back to work. Opm and omb encouraging agencies to give people flexibility if they need it if they are in situations that dont permit them to drop everything and go back to work. I think it took a lot of people by quite a bit of surprise. Host i suppose that means getting things back to normal as fast as possible. Guest that is the discussion we have had a lot the past couple of weeks. What is the difference between back to work and back to normal . Back to work is the next workday on your schedule. Back to normal may be days, weeks, months because of the nature of the disruption, of the shutdown. Host talk about the issue of pay. A lot of questions that came out from other colors this morning how long before we see from other callers this morning. How long before we see backpay . Guest some folks who got either a smaller paycheck or insulin very few cases no paycheck in some very few cases no paycheck, by the end of october, they should be back to normal. In some cases, employees were saying, wait a minute, i was supposed to work during the shutdown. Im going to get paid my normal rate. If they make everybody whole, there will be some who end up with a vacation that was paid. How fair is that . It is not anybody mad at the other person, it is just another element of frustration going on inside the agencies. Host that means the executives have to handle those kinds of issues. Guest hr leaders are telling me that people should be ready for all kinds of workplace morale not problems, because people are going to be ready to go back to work. By and large, everybody has been chomping at the bit to get back to work and doing the job they were assigned to do. But there are going to be these kinds of issues. And as i said before, that thing that is hanging over everybodys head, that black cloud, we could be back in the same spot january 15. The track record indicates the odds are better that that will happen then that it wont. Than that it wont. Host what about benefits . Was that affected . Guest no. That money was already paid. The benefits state in full force during the entire shutdown. Host tell our viewers what you learned the past couple weeks talking to executives and workers. What are some things that you heard that have not been played out in papers as far as the federal worker perspective in all this . Guest its a lot of frustration. They consider themselves to be people who are just regular folks, not doing anything outstanding. One of my favorite stories during the shutdown was an awards ceremony for the service to america medals done by the partnership for public service. It was about three days after the shutdown. One of the executives that leaves the nasa curiosity rover project got an award and told everybody how proud he was of the fact that any taxpayer who wanted to see what curiosity was seeing could do it from a smart phone. He held up his smart phone as an example. Except for me, because im on furlough. He was not allowed to you his use hisne to smart phone issued by the government during the shutdown. People were frustrated because it was no fault of theirs, they didnt think think. Thats probably the biggest untold story in all of this. Host you can find out more about federal news radio at federalnewsradio. Com. Thanks for the time. Guest thank you very much. Host back to your calls. You are next on our republican line. Hello. Guest i have a state caller i have a statement to make and then i have a question. When obama ran