Jim DeMint: “We need to be moving toward a comprehensive update of our communications laws and regulations.”

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.

We've got to determine what we're going to do about it. A missile defense is going to be a key.

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

His proposal was so outlandish, I don't think we should go back to the table until he puts something there that we can work with.