consumer product safety commission, another watch-dog, in san diego last week, a 2-year-old child, anette estrada, was killed. she was crushed by a falling tv. so they can't investigate this incident and maybe some other kids are going to suffer that. it might have been a very defective design. what does the house do? they're governing by press release. they keep, oh, we'll open this little sliver of an agency and that one. that's not how you run the greatest nation on earth. open up the government. you said you shut it down because of obamacare. obamacare is going forward. you want to fix some parts of it. we're ready to talk. there's no winners in this shutdown. it's devastating for our workers. do you know there are more contract employees tan there are federal employees -- than there are federal employees, madam president? there are. and even if you take away the military federal contractor employees -- and we hope that they're getting paid; we're not positive they all are, but let's say they are -- there's more than 2 million contract employees that don't know when the next paycheck are comi