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Chamber of commerce and ceos and economists and a whole lot of republicans outside of congress. they're all saying, do not do this. they're all saying to congress, do your job and the sooner you do your job the less damage you'll do to our economy and to businesses like this one. so pass a budget, end the government shutdown. pay our bills, prevent an economic shutdown. just vote and end the shutdown and you should do it today so you can get back to growing this economy, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class. [ applause ] >> let me chose just by sharing a story i heard as i was gett...

Don't raise the debt ceiling, they don't go out on time. in a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don't. in a government shutdown, millions of americans, not just federal workers, everybody faces real economic hardship. in an economic shutdown, falling pensions and home values and rising interest rates on things like mortgages and student loans, all those things risk putting us back into a bad recession which will affect this company and those workers and all of you. that's not my analysis. that's every economist out there is saying the ...

>> so there he is, the president of the united states in suburban washington, d.c., rockville, maryland, a construction company there locally owned. the president making a very strong case urging republicans, especially in the house of representatives, to go ahead and pass legislation to reopen the government, also pass legislation to make sure the debt ceiling october 17th, that debt ceiling is raised so the country does not default. let's go to christine romans. christine, the dow jones as we have been watching the president speak and he's making the case, he said as reckless as a government...

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