Because I am an American serving this country for almost 30 years (both active duty and civil service) and I respect that the will of the people should prevail here. Congress is hurting us as a nation! Protest to your congressional representative, loudly and boldly. Don't sit idly by and take this! Move on with courage!

to try to talk sense into the senseless...

SOMETHING NEEDS DONE WHEN OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE WILLING TO MAKE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE MISS THEIR PAYCHECKS BECAUSE SOMETHING THAT WAS PASSED INTO LAW DOESN,T SUITE THEM AND THEY NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT ,AND IT NEEDS STOPED AND THEY NEED TO NO IT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED BY EITHER PARTY OR IT WILL NEVER END AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE PAYING THE PRICE ,WE WANT THEM ARRESTED AND REMOVED FROM OUR OFFICES AND NEW PEOPLE APPOINTED TO RUN THEIR OFFICES UNTIL WE CAN ELECT NEW PEOPLE ,AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IS NUMBER ONE.

Speaker Boehner refuses to allow an up or down vote for a bill to fund the government with no strings attached.

As a worker in Yosemite National Park, I am now out of work because of the closure of the park. And my county will be devastated if the shutdown doesn't end soon since tourism is its main source of income.

I, and others, are extremely outraged at Congressional Republicans across the country who are responsible for shutting down the government. Their reckless and irresponsible scheme has put Social Security checks for American senior citizens at risk, threatens veterans' benefits for our men and women in uniform, delays many government programs vital to the middle class, and impacts student loans--all in the name of a Tea Party crusade to shut down the government and derail the Affordable Care Act. How many marginalized Americans will be hurt before Republicans finally denounce this radical right-wing crusade to re-fight the health care battles of the past and devastate our national and global economy? Under a government shutdown, nearly 1.4 million active duty military personnel--two of which are our family members--would not be paid for their work until after the shutdown ends. Additionally, according to the Department of Defense, nearly half of the civilian workforce would not be paid during a government shutdown. This is immoral and disrespectful to American voters. For the Bible says pay unto ever man and woman what is due.

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!