Kevin Kiley

Well, there are a lot of reasons for the House to be in session.

We were supposed to be in session the last two weeks.

We're supposed to be in session next week, irrespective of a government shutdown, because, you know, we have oversight hearings to do.

We have legislation to mark up.

We have the ordinary business of the people to carry out.

And there's no justification to shut everything down just because we're in the midst of the government shutdown.

In fact, the fact that there's a government shutdown is all the more reason that we should be there in order to be doing everything we possibly can to get us out of this situation.

Not to mention the fact that the entire reason the House had to pass a seven-week continuing resolution in the first place is that we were going to miss the deadline for passing a full budget.

So even if that seven-week continuing resolution became law, we've already burned a few of those weeks just being out of session.

Yeah, I think we need to explore all avenues.

And I want to be very clear, I voted for the continuing resolution.

I don't like continuing resolutions, but it was the lesser of two evils between that and shutting down the government, which is a terrible thing.

I wish the Senate would just vote for the version we passed in the House.

I don't agree with what Chuck Schumer is doing.

I think he's being unreasonable.

But this is politics.

Sometimes you have to work with people that you believe are being unreasonable in order to find the common ground that is best for the country.

And so long as the House isn't even there, that's going to be very hard for us to do.

I think if there's an avenue that we can explore that will get us out of this, then absolutely.

I mean, they've brought up this issue of the subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.