plink!i want to warn the affiliates who might be going long. >> this is really good. >> stephen: now, you get elected, you go in there, your first day in congress, the government is shut down. what the-- what the heck is that like? >> i mean, basically... ( laughter ) it's, like-- well, what i will say is there are a lot of things we can't do as freshman members. we have almost, you know, around 100 new members of both parties that are coming to congress and we can't properly set up our district offices, we can't get laptops delivered, we can't start doing the work that we're elected here to do. >> stephen: it takes the green stuff. >> yeah, it takes the green stuff, and those workers are furloughed. and so the downside is that we're not able to get to work as much as we want to in the beginning, but the bright side is that it gives us a lot more free time to make trouble. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) yeah. >> stephen: because, you know what they say, idle hands are the devil's legis