Christopher Shays: “Well, I know that you are a newer Member of Congress, and I know that you decided to run because you looked at how you…”

“Well, I know that you are a newer Member of Congress, and I know that you decided to run because you looked at how you saw Congress operate and said how can grown men and women fail to get our financial house in order? And that is what we are about. I have had constituents who said to me, how could you shut down the government? Well, part of the government is shut down, and the reason it is shut down is that the President has vetoed some budgets that we have given him, that he has not given us a balanced budget, and we are determined basically for the long haul to seek a balanced budget. We are not going to miss this opportunity. We are going to pursue it. I had some Members say to me, well, the polls say the President is taking the right position and Congress is taking the wrong position. It is interesting when we get in the polls. I will make two points. One is that the Time Magazine, when they did a poll, said that just recently in the last edition, 47 percent feel we are 'cutting too much'; 46 percent said we were cutting just right on or not enough.”