Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability.

In the middle of a shutdown, when people are really hurting, we need more than concepts of a plan.

I’m willing to compromise, but our Republican colleagues have to be willing to compromise, too.

The government needs to open and it needs to open immediately.

It should shock everyone that universities, public and private, are receiving demands from the federal government.

If we could deploy them, and I don’t know that we can, we got to see what air spaces they worked in, but he will step in and try to provide some relief in the skies

And I'm doing what I can in a mess that Democrats have put in my lap.

I do believe that the demographic shift that we were able to see and experience in the 2024 election will hold

the percentage of flights canceled could rise as high as 20% in the coming weeks

We absolutely need everyone to vote to open the government.

Absolutely not.

It's only going to get worse

Instead of negotiating with Democrats, Republicans would rather let air-traffic controllers go unpaid, they’d rather ground flights, and they’d rather punish travelers

I have continued to oppose the filibuster, and would be happy to do away with the filibuster, but the question is…for what reason?

This is not political, this is strictly safety

I'm a capitalist, I'm a Democrat, and I won by 15 points in Virginia.

I would do away with it so that we can expand and protect people's freedoms and their rights.

As that data came in we decided to make the decisions we thought were appropriate