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I thank everyone here tonight for providing the diversity of stories that are really coming from States across the country which we all represent. And I know it is just a small bit of what we are all hearing every day in our offices. I…
I thank the gentlewoman for sharing those stories. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter).
I thank the gentlewoman very much for her thoughts. I am now happy to yield to my friend from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter).
I am pleased we are able to be here tonight to have an hour with some of my colleagues to continue this conversation about the hardships people are facing due to this shutdown and the impact it is having on our country. We have had so many…
This is exactly what the framers were worried about. They didn't want a monarch.
This isn't the way our system is designed.
Everybody wants to get to a solution here, and I just wish the president would put a little faith in the process.
Well, I am unclear on what it actually means. But the concept is that he's still trying to bargain about opening the government.
I can't leave the floor without complimenting the Senator from Alaska for her usual thoughtful analysis and constructive approach to dealing with this issue. I am proud to serve with the Senator on the Energy and Natural Resources…
No, I think there's a problem, not a crisis.
The bill that passed has $1.6 billion. The one that passed last year had $1.3 billion. You know, that's a lot of money and does specify a whole series of things but, again, part of the burden on the administration is to come forward and…
I think there is a way out by saying, OK, park rangers have nothing to do with the wall. Food stamps have nothing to do with the wall. Let's fund those.
If the precedent is established that the president can hold the Congress and the government hostage to get some policy that he wants, then I don't know where it stops.
Holding the government hostage is exactly what this is, is not, shouldn't be in the toolkit.
We can only interdict one-fourth, 25 percent, of the boatloads of drugs that we know are coming by water from Latin America because of lack of resources.
I've never heard anybody say that. I've never heard anybody advocate it. Everybody on both sides of the aisle is for border security.
The President has taken a wrecking ball to every pillar of stability and security we've erected over the past 60, 70 years. He systematically demolishing that.