Romaine Bostick

They don't necessarily matter for the stock market.

As somebody who spent, you know, quite an onerous time trying to get back home over this weekend on an airplane, I can

assure you it does matter.

Is there any way to sort of quantify what the potential impact is of a 41-day and counting government shutdown?

I am curious about just kind of the state of the economy heading into this shutdown.

The idea that even if we do strike a deal over the next couple of days, it could take a couple of weeks to get back to anything resembling normalcy.

When you look at the state of the economy prior to the shutdown, how fragile, if at all, did you see it to be?

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I'm in Jersey City, New Jersey, with the Congressman for the 8th District of New Jersey, which represents most of Hudson County and a good chunk of Jersey City, where I'm standing right now.

Congressman Rob Menendez, great to have you here, sir, on a day where I think a lot of people are really looking right now to the Statehouse and wondering whether this is that year

where we end up with a Republican governor for the first time in a while.

There's been some criticism of the campaign that Mikey Sherrill has been running.

The idea that that campaign is a little bit more high level.

It's about national issues.

While Jack Chiarelli seems to be focusing a little bit more on the kitchen table and pocketbook issues, if you will.

What are you hearing from voters as to what they actually want?

What are they going to the polls to vote for today?

In talking to voters, you hear a lot about housing affordability.

But as of late, you're also hearing a lot about the issue of affordability of electricity.

Power prices have jumped more than 20 percent on a year over year basis.