Jim DeMint: “One of the first things we will do in the House and the Senate is ban earmarks.”

Senator DeMint says let's use the Federal Government as an exemplar for how to reopen.

Well, Anderson, this issue is much bigger than North Korea. We're now living in a world we've got to understand that North Korea is going to have nuclear weapons.

Certainly, the Federal Government needs to be an example everywhere we can.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.