brian todd, cnn, washington. >> let's talk a little more with new york columnist ryan lizza, you saw him in brian todd's report. the sue said caucus, as they've become known, 80 members. we're going to put it on hold because john boehner is making a statement. >> made his position known very clearly. we believe we should fund the government and there should be basic fairness for all americans under obama care. now, the senate has continued to reject our offers. but under the constitution there's a way to resolve this process, and that is to go to conference and talk through your differences. and i would hope that the senate would accept our offer to go to conference and discuss this, so we can resolve this for the american people. questions? >> reporter: mr. boehner, mr. speaker, the stakes have really been raised in this now. and you have members in both parties who want to vote on a clean -- you said you would like to work. will you vote on a clean c.r.? >> we're hoping they'll take our offer to go to conference and resolve our differences. >> reporter: tomorrow, later today, 800,000 federal workers will rece