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That task force to come out, should at least be something the governor cannot ignore. >> well, you know, last year they put a bill out, senator simmons, who is the state senator for where the tragedy took place in sanford. he put the bill out. our governor provided no leadership. never called a speaker, never called the senate president to say move this bill forward. he did that for a number of other bills, but he didn't do it for the bill for the task force that he commissioned. and so, you know, we're just fed up here in florida. we're tired of politics as usual. we know that young men are -...

Bill forward. and if there's no political heat, if there's no television story on it, then nothing happens. and if we do some sort of shotgun approach like that, then you'll have some programs that are highly visible get funded and reopened like national monuments, but things that don't get a lot of attention, like the sba loans, not being funded. you know, we don't get to select which programs we implement or not. there are a whole bunch of things the republicans have said are law that we have to do and i don't get a chance to go back and say, you now what, this coke cockamamy idea that congr...

Solve at least some of the the problem if you couldn't solve all of it. here's the problem. what you have seen are bills that come up where wherever republicans are feeling political pressure, they put a bill forward. >> meanwhile the house is moving forward with legislation to set up a new working group to discuss fiscal matters. democrats will get six members from the senate and four from the house. house speaker john boehner says the time to talk is now. >> all we're asking for is to sit down and have this conversation. there's no reason to make it more difficult to bring people to the tabl...

>> reporter: there are plenty of folks on capitol hill who do not like obamacare but with president obama in the white house and democrat controlling the senate they don't sound overly optimistic. >> i think it's a great attempt to raise the issue of some of the weaknesses and the problems with obamacare but, it's not a, it's not a tactic that we can actually carry out and be successful and i am sure that the senate is going to move that bill forward. >> reporter: others are expressing the frustration that the only options are yes or no. here's democrat joe manchin. >> since i've been here not...

Congress has to go forward with obama care which is law, the affordable health care act, would you therefore say that you would not vote to shut down the funding for the rest of the government, or are you saying in this bill that if any of this is funding the affordable health care act that you will not go forward in paying the country's bill and paying the funds that are available for the rest of what the budget is at this point? >> i will say exactly what i've been saying all along in this interview and before this interview. we are putting forward a bill that funds the government and in the...