01/28/2014
https://www.congress.gov...
"Statement of Senator Klobuchar"
"Our witness today, Mark Zandi, warned this Committee last month that shuttering the government for three or four weeks would do significant economic damage, reducing real gross domestic product by 1.4..."
"if we don't approach things with the spirit of compromise, it is going to be very hard to do that kind of long-term debt reduction."
"We have already lost a million jobs that we could have had in this country."