Representative Eshoo - too late. The shutdown seems to have been averted for now. You are right that we should have a budget instead of a series of continuing resolutions. It is misleading for anyone to state that the majority party controls both chambers of Congress, however. They do not control the Senate in any meaningful sense, only a technical one, as long as 60 votes are required to invoke cloture and bring a bill to a floor vote.

You got to love Anna and the Voice. Rep Eshoo voted FOR the government shutdown!

Mail will continue to be delivered? That's good since the USPS doesn't get any tax money for their operations

Now you can have some more love. Eshoo voted to keep the government shutdown!

Oh how many decades have past since people like my family had intelligent representation in congress. It is only a faint memory now. Eshoo et al are embarrassing.

It's a source of embarrassment that Anna Eshoo and the rest of her party think that illegal aliens should be given more consideration than citizens. Her job is to represent American citizens, not those who have chosen to break the law.

She should be ashamed of herself.

@psr, Accusing fault in one does not mean you have found innocence with another on a similar topic.

Be brave enough to call out the obvious failures of your own party. Only then will you be a truly free man, only then will you be a true patriot. It starts right now.

We were in a no win situation last election. It was a "s' sandwich we were being asked to bite. Sadly, too many people are more than willing to take a bite out of the s sandwich, but only the sheeple will proclaim how delicious it is rather than admit their choice was bad from the start, yes, even if the other choice was also bad.

@ Not all are that strong

What does Anna Eshoo's obvious attempt at virtue-shaming the GOP have to do with any faults in that party? This is a discussion about her comments regarding the Democrat Party's attempt to get an illegal Executive Order codified by holding the budget hostage. Any faults in the GOP, real or imagined, don't excuse that.

As for the choices we had in the last election, that is simply not at issue here. We had a legal election which followed the process called out in our Constitution. The fact that you are not happy with the result doesn't change the reality. Perhaps you could try to look at the issues and stop making your decisions based on who presented the idea.

In case you don't remember, the Democrat Party used to be in favor of border security at one point (at least they SAID they were). Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all made speeches in favor of a stronger border, to the cheers of the crowds they addressed. Is that border no longer important simply because Donald Trump plans to do the very thing that those people only paid lip service to? Why are Democrats now so against building the wall that they promised to build in 1986? Democrats got amnesty for millions of illegal aliens on the strength of their promise they would build a wall and NEVER ask for amnesty again. They got their amnesty, but we never got the wall. This time, the wall should come first. They have shown for decades that they won't keep their word after they get what they want. This time it should be a wall and no amnesty. That is the only fair outcome.

Also, why do you assume I am a man? That seems pretty sexist, if you ask me. Perhaps you should spend more time in introspection as to why you would make such an assumption.