Shutting down the government is bad enough. As we roll toward a debt default because some Republicans want to win with terrorist tactics what they cannot win at the ballot box, it is time to start calling them out. Members of Congress take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the U.S., and to faithfully discharge the duties of their office. The Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for having consensual sex. It's time that the Republicans supporting this shutdown be told plainly that shutting down the government and defaulting on our national debt is not fulfilling their oath of office and that the sane members of Congress will seek to bring impeachment proceedings against them if they don't relinquish the gun that they have at America's temple. The Democrats have got to stop being doormats for the Republican bullying tactics and realize that the only way to stop a bully is to call their bluff and teach them a lesson so painful that they will think twice. For 200 years, the only issue serious enough to divide the country like this was slavery, and it tore the country in two. The Republicans are taking us right down the road to being a third-world country. Maybe that's OK with Rand Paul and Ted Cruz--it is not OK with me. It is no longer enough to get a clean CR. We need to impeach the Congressmen and women that supported this idea of legislating by hostage. Our system of republican government requires that the majority and minority compromise and that can only happen within the bounds of parliamentary procedure. When one side thinks it no longer applies to them, they are no longer governing--they are fomenting revolution--and no one, Republican or Democrat should stand for it. It is worth noting that when the Republicans had the White House, the Democrats never played these games. Only one party believes it has a monopoly on truth, justice and the American way--and it's always the ones who proclaim their piety and patriotism for whom you have to watch out.

The fish I buy from my local co-op comes from a cooperative which also sells to the restaurant at Acadia National Park. Since the park is closed, the fish is not being delivered. I never imagined the shutdown would affect my grocery shopping! I am incredibly offended at how the Tea Party faction is bullying Congress and the nation. Suddenly I feel more hostage than citizen.

I work for a federally-funded tribal college. Some spending at the school has been curtailed but fortunately for now we are still getting paid through conservative fiscal management. However, this will have a huge impact on many at the school: students, employees, and their families, if this continues and we hit the debt ceiling. This partisan game-playing has really gone too far and Congress needs to come together for the common good of the American people and everyone whose lives depend on a functional federal budget.

My son, who has Down syndrome, relies on a Section 8 housing voucher to maintain his independence by living in his own apartment. The shutdown puts funding for Section 8 housing in jeopardy. My daughter-in-law has a federal job. She is not permitted to work during the shutdown.

Republican extremism has impacted me because it made financial planning of any responsible kind impossible.

Republican extremism has impacted me personally. I am unemployed, want a job. Now they're wanting to take away my support, including food stamps and unemployment.

My daughter knows two young professionals out of work who grew up in northeast Ohio: one works for NASA, another is her sister-in-law working in the D.C. area. I am worried everyday how this shutdown will snowball and that Americans will be less secure financially.

My sister works for the federal government, for the Department of Defense, and as a result of this shutdown she is not getting paid. This, of course, affects her ability to pay her mortgage, car payments, and other necessities.

Republican extremism has impacted me in this way: I am a technical writer/editor for the U.S . Geological Survey in Tacoma (I live in your district in Seattle and commute to Tacoma) who has been furloughed as a result of the shutdown. This is already causing financial hardship on my family--my wife and daughter. And all this after having been laid off from a much higher paying job of 16 years two years ago and being unemployed for 6 months before getting my current U.S. Geological Survey job.

Republican extremism has impacted me in this way: I have family members who are out of work with student loans to pay back and no money for rent.

I am in your district. I started this petition to tell you what I feel about Republican extremism. I feel you are a hostage of the Tea Party at best--at worse you are willing to shut down the country to prevent good American citizens from having access to health care. I am a hard working person. I have spent some of my life without health insurance and it is very scary. You enjoy the best of health care--better than Obamacare, you do not allow your loved ones to face a health crisis without medical care. Yet you shut down our country to deny other good citizens any coverage at all--not for them, not for their spouses and not for their children. That is a sad and shameful action to take. Quit blocking Obamacare and harming good American families. Put aside partisan politics and do the right thing. Stop the shut down and free Obamacare to help the good people without health insurance.

There are over 400,000 veterans in Minnesota. Every one is experiencing the impact the GOP government shutdown is having on our lives. Yesterday, I had to contact my landlord and explain why I won't be able to pay my rent come November. Next week, I will have to alert City Hall and let them know why I won't be able to pay my utilities. Over 10% of Minnesota residents, like myself, are facing homelessness over the next several weeks, because the GOP, and Speaker Boehner specifically, refuses to allow the budget continuing resolution to be voted on by Republicans in the House of Representatives. Governor Dayton has convened a task force to try and handle hundreds of thousands of veterans that will show up at his door, begging for help. How many other Minnesota residents are facing the same negative impact on their lives?