is congressman earl blumenauer morgan's third congressional district who joins us now from capitol hill congressman welcome back great to see you likewise to thank you with the republicans refusing to compromise on anything that includes attack site what do you hope to accomplish with this letter well it's very important that we don't get caught into this legislative hostage taking as you know a majority of democrats in the house were willing to give speaker boehner both score a clean vote on the debt ceiling so he wouldn't be held hostage to the extreme elements in his caucus which was set up to fail and rejected by the republicans it's important that we take a step back if we're going to be involved with extensive negotiations at this point it's very important that the white house be clear that we're not going to fall for this parade of. accelerating even further tax cuts making the hole deeper the president has made a stand that he is not going to extend them for the wealthiest it's important that we stick by that and resist efforts to take what are already as you know tom we have ha