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Confident that we're going to do it. >> congressman, let me ask you about this bill in its entirety. your sense, your hope is that it gets done by christmas. does that settle some things, because there's been some sort of, you know, unsettlement in the democratic party about what the priorities are and what this party is going to look like going forward. there seems to be more to agree upon than disagree upon in these bills. >> absolutely, i think at least among the democratic party and with regard to our constituents, this bbb will is a aaa rating with my constituents. with regard to providin...

That you've got this legislation across the finish line, and i know you're a strong supporter of it, how do you feel about how this went in any sort of lessons learned? >> i think the biggest lesson is that, unfortunately, the republican party has become the party of no, with regard to so many priorities are very constituents. whether it's affordable childcare, we're investing in workforce training, or universal pre-k, or even fighting climate change. and so, we have to, basically, come together as a caucus, and do the hard work of governing the country. the only challenge is to make that as w...

That send to our eneies abroad. those looking for weaknesses in our system to take advantage of the instability that we create in the marketplace. it would go way down. people would lose billions of dollars in this economy. we know this because it happened back in 2011 when the mere threat of passing the increase in the debt limit that compromised our aaa rating, down to aa, caused a billion dollars in our economy. why would we do this again if only to put the other party in jeopardy by says guess what? this party is raising the debt limit. yeah, we are. so trying to make a point and put out a...

The past. these debt ceiling crisis can have real consequences. let's take a look at what happens in 2011. you can see ton the left of the standard report index of the stock market drops 7% in one day and wipes a trillion dollars off the network of american families and pension funds and other investors. you can see on the right side, they have also been recovering from the financial crisis and dropping all the way back. both of them eventually did come back. they have permanent consequences. the united states lost its aaa rating. still have not gotten it back. this is not a place we want to b...

The few items that i you mentioned and many, many others with the united states government a lot of people depend on us. but i was thinking about this question and thinking about just how unlikely it is, you know, governments default, they can't pay their debt. i don't think governments default that won't pay their debts. acknowledging that this is a political issue. we would pay the five minutes after that, is what i'm saying, and so i just don't think it's even possible. neil: all right. i hope you're right, and i'm not trying to be a wet blanket on this, because i've raised this for 25 year...