Instead, he is allowing a small group of Republican extremists to pursue their ideological crusade to repeal the Afforda...
Today, our Nation is entering its ninth day--the ninth day of House Speaker John Boehner's government shutdown.
Speaker Boehner has refused to allow the House to vote on a clean continuing resolution that would end the shutdown.
Even worse, our country is rapidly approaching the debt-ceiling deadline of October 17th.
This is the law.
I guarantee you. I bet everything I've got, except my wife and kids, that if you put this order forward with a clean, a ...
You err on the side of opening up government.
Negotiate over what? See, that's the question.
I did not come to the Congress to throw Mr. Labrador's constituents under the bus, and I'm not throwing mine under the b...
If they had such a problem with it they probably -- they could have challenged it, I guess, in the Supreme Court on that...
They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.
We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts.
You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts.
Today is the first time the Federal Government has shut down in 17 years. This has happened because a small group of Tea...
If they put a clean resolution on the floor, it would pass and there would be no government shutdown.
I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to ask your leadership to put a clean CR on the floor and end this s...
Absolutely not. Wolf, we have a situation where the Republican Party has allowed a small minority, the Tea Party Republi...
They want to shut the government down. I am convinced.
