district has elected a first member to hold the seat was future president george h.w. bush. new congress, new leaders. watch it all on c-span. guest is representative thompson. chairman thompson, thank you for being with us. we have two reporters in the studio to ask questions. nick sanders and stephen diamond. thank you for returning to our program this week. taping onon, we are friday morning and a run 21 of the government shutdown. how do you see the sending? in sight ato end this point. as you know, we have some 800,000 federal employees who won't get a paycheck today, but nonetheless, they are working. keeping america safe, but it is just not right to have people working and not