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Tomorrow, which means the website healthcare.gov where people can go to sign up will be working. our call centers will be working. it should have minimal impact on the rollout. it's a huge undertaking. this is a six-moment long process we're starting. tomorrow is just the first day. we think probably the first few months of this project will be people learning about the different plans. you don't actually -- it's not until january 1 you have the insurance available to you. so we think there will be a lot of window shopping for the first few months. but we'll be ready to go with that project to...

Would not affect social security check, medicare checks, post offices and active military duty would stay on the job. >> what are lawmakers saying about the actual impact of a shutdown? what is their perspective? >> republicans are talking too much about the specific impacts. they're only saying it's democrats who seem to want that shutdown while democrats are pointing out some possible effect. >> 800,000 federal workers will be the victims of this republican shutdown strategy. it hurts our economy. we're just starting to recover and create jobs. >> the impacts could be felt tuesday morning un...

House leadership and many influential house and senate republicans was they didn't want to shut down over obama care, they were actively cautioning against it, but there was such a revolt from the tea party wing, from the conservative grassroots led by people like senator ted cruz, that they really felt no option but to go along with the most conservative wing of their members. and yesterday on the hill, when i was talking to even the more moderate republicans, like michael grimm and tom cole, who have been critical of the shutdown strategy, they are saying they are completely unified by this ...

Nation's 401 national parks would be shut down, you won't be able to apply for a passport, excuse me, and applications already in the works could be delays, and first time home buyers would find they can't apply for a mortgage or the process would be delayed. the shutdown would not affect certain other things. social security and medicare checks would continue to go out on time. post offices would continue operating, and active duty military would continue on their jobs. democrats are using this threat of a shutdown as a political tool to hammer republicans and claim the shutdown will be costl...

So these are ideas being floated, some of them have some traction, some of them do not. but they give us sort of a glimpse of what the story is going to be as it unfolds in days to come. so john boehner is not talking specific shutdown strategy now because he wants the senate to actually pass the bill, and they're talking about it today as we've talked about the rules. they are debating it on the floor. there's been speech after speech. no ted cruz marathons but lots of senators are talking about their thoughts about the government shutdown, how to avoid it, what should happen. so we expect a ...