Should we be finding a new way to fund the Commodities Futures Trading Commission so that the next time there's a disput...
the tea party controls the House of Representatives and they don't like the government. So they want to shut it down.
There is not.
So we have lost many of the fundamental protections from poisons, defective products, financial crime...
Do you all agree that the Federal Government shutdown has increased our risk of serious injury or death...
The public now sees what the government does and to a certain extent they're increasingly understanding that the Afforda...
I would ask, Mr. Chairman, that I want to add my concern that this shutdown on top of the sequester is harming American ...
We have got to pay them.
It is unacceptable for Congress to ever voluntarily default on the debt and that continual short-term extensions of the ...
A U.S. default is the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
Accountability means voting to close tax loopholes so that wealthy individuals and big corporations are going to pay a f...
We cannot do this every year, every 2 years, every 6 weeks since what I hear you saying is the very threat is costing us...
I want to thank Ranking Member Engel and particularly Mr. Smith for your years of leadership on this.
I speak today in support of this bill and in particular on behalf of one of my constituents, Colin Bower.
neither the President nor I have shut down the government in pursuit of our goals.
Beneath the rhetoric, which remains hot, we had two concessions now. The president has made a concession by saying he's ...
The vast majority of people who really understand this issue are warning seriously do not allow this country to go into ...
I think if the Republicans would promise President Obama we will not -- we will give you a clean debt resolution. We wil...
