Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators be permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, on October 13, 1775, Congress enacted legislation providing for the outfitting of America's first two warships, manned by crews of 80, to be sent out on a 3-month cruise. Their mission was to intercept transports carrying…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.J. Res 79, a bill which claims to fund border security, but in reality is just a continuation of the piecemeal approach to funding government operations being used by the House Republican…

Mr. President, I think one of the things we ought to be observing, here at least, is courteous rules among ourselves. This is meant to be the greatest deliberative body in the world. If we follow the rules, follow the regular order, follow…

Mr. President, I join my colleagues in taking the floor to stress the urgency of action. I agree with my colleague from Massachusetts and her comments about the devastating impact the failure to pay our bills would have on our economy, on…

Mr. Speaker, the previous speaker said that the shutdown should be unacceptable. I agree with that. We could all, within the next half an hour, vote to make the unacceptable not the policy that we are pursuing. Mr. Speaker, our government…

It is Congress's responsibility to do this. Uncertainty is really hurting this country.

Madam President, I ask that the Senate stand in recess until 2:15. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:26 p.m., recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassembled…

Madam President, I rise to speak as the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who would like to reopen government and have our committee get back to regular order to be able to move our appropriations bills, to be able to debate…

Mr. President, I rise to respectfully say that we in the Senate and we in the Congress have to do what our constituents elected us to do and what the Constitution requires us to do: keep the United States Government open and make sure the…

Today, our Nation is entering its ninth day--the ninth day of House Speaker John Boehner's government shutdown.

I have seen a lot of things as a Member of Congress over my 17 years, but I have never seen a committee chairman tell the head of an agency that he could not be present during a public hearing with one of his own employees.

Even worse, our country is rapidly approaching the debt-ceiling deadline of October 17th.

Yet Republicans seem willing to jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States of America unless we eliminate the Affordable Care Act.

I represented a number of people, and they--when they got a notice of audit from the IRS or they got certain letters from the IRS, they base--would get very upset and very nervous.

I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding. Madam Speaker, as ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I rise in strong support of paying our Federal workers, but I oppose the parliamentary gimmicks being…

I deeply regret the fact, going back to 'The Crucible,' that you are going to be pilloried here today.

Speaker Boehner has refused to allow the House to vote on a clean continuing resolution that would end the shutdown.