I have had to call my creditors and tell them I may not receive a paycheck until the government shutdown is over. I have to work without pay! We need a House of Representatives that truly care about a strong America with healthy citizens. With over 800,000 federal employees being out of work and the subsequent trickle down to missed mortgages, car payments electric and utility payments there will be untold damage to our economy and the safety of the American people.

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!

Family members and people working in Toe Path Industries, a sheltered work center operated by Schoharie County ARC, are worried about what people will do if this vocational option of choice is eliminated. The Schoharie-based workshop employs 68 people who are learning new skills through meaningful work opportunities in a safe and accessible environment while contributing and earning a paycheck for real work. Whether employed by the sheltered workshop or through the supported employment program, a job creates a sense of dignity and pride for people to have a place to go to work and contribute to the community.

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.

At an August town hall meeting, Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) said that supporting a federal government shutdown would be “irresponsible” and have a “huge, negative impact.” He even said he opposed a shutdown as a way to delay Obamacare. Now, he has time and again voted with the tea party for a government shutdown. Join Daily Kos and Progress Iowa in demanding that Congressman Tom Latham get back to work—and reopen the government without delaying Obamacare.