What you are doing is playing hell with the economy. I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congress was elected to solve problems, not create new ones. Whatever modifications need to be made to the Affordable Care Act, taking America hostage and ruining our economy so that radical right-wingers can get their way, and shutting down the federal government is not a way to work out issues. It's time for Congress to get a dose if its own medicine. No solution? No pay!

Ted Cruz is representing Texas I'm a Texan and his actions are not my action nor the action of majority of Texans.

The GOP members of the House are endangering people's livelihoods and our economy. They need to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling before more damage is done to the U.S.

Hundreds of thousands of Utahns depend upon the national parks in Utah remaining open, and are losing money every day that our representatives continue this shutdown. I am one of them.

As a full-time real estate professional, and a man in the process of purchasing a home for his family, I am personally affected by the government shutdown, as is anyone who is trying to close on a mortgage. The IRS is not open to process the 4506 forms required by law to fund a loan. This is affecting me personally as I will soon be homeless because my landlord is not extending my previously agreed-upon exit date. The shutdown affects hundreds of thousands of taxpaying citizens, who are paying large salaries to the same people who are essentially taking their jobs away. Congress absolutely should not be paid during this shutdown and should suffer the same consequences that they have brought upon their employers--the U.S. citizens!

I am outraged that Rep. Randy Neugebauer claims to represent any part of my home state. His behavior proves that he does not understand the consequences of his own actions and therefore needs to immediately stand down before more damage is done.

I want my legislators to take personal responsibility and experience the same consequences of their votes as other citizens. It isn't fair for them to revoke the salaries of their constituents without sharing their plight.

There are far too many career legislators, too removed from the general U.S. citizenry. Our country was founded on citizen legislators and needs to be again. Perhaps then something will get done.

The inequality and injustice of Congressmen being paid during the shutdown that causes rank and file federal workers to be unpaid creates a ridiculously unfair imbalance. It's outrageous that members of Congress can continue to receive pay while not doing their jobs and inflicting hardship on others with their inaction and inflexibility. They are there to make the country work, not to shut it down because they don't get to have everything their way.

Sick and tired of political gamesmanship hurting the American people.

Voting fairness . We risk loss of representation when political interests draw the lines for unfair advantage. Gerrymandering is undemocratic and should be stopped now before anymore elections anywhere .