On page 128 of your report on the budget and the economy, however, the CBO projects that the Trump tax plan will increase the deficit by nearly $1.9 trillion over the next 11 years.

Ten thousand Americans with disabilities died last year while they were submitting claims to a Social Security Administration that does not have the staff or the funding to process those claims.

I see the distinguished Senator from Alaska on the floor. I will not be long, as I noted to him. I am speaking in my capacity as the Democratic manager of the legislation before us. I think--like most of us and most people in the…

I want to acknowledge that we are all fortunate in this House and in this country to have the chairman of the Armed Services Committee that we do, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Thornberry). He identified a problem. When we are operating by…

I appreciate what the Senator from Illinois, my dear friend, just said. It is interesting when we deal with substance and not sound bites. I used to worry when I was first here and I would hear some of my very senior colleagues--they were…

I come before my colleagues in the Senate to urge in the strongest possible terms that the Republican leadership here accept its responsibility and not allow the Government of the United States of America to shut down. Republicans control…

Potentially, but, you know, what since Donald Trump had made that announcement in September, over 15,000 'DREAMERS' have lost their protective status. They cannot work, and they're lives are in limbo. And so the idea that nothing happens…

What we are talking about today is to address the crisis facing Dreamers. This was a crisis precipitated by President Trump when he rescinded Obama's executive order.

I don't want a shutdown. I think a shutdown is bad for millions of people who depend on government services, certainly bad for federal employees.

We can reach an agreement in terms of how much we spend on the military and how much we spend on the needs -- the domestic needs of working families.

Let me repeat. He does not have the votes. He knows he does not have the votes. Why do you go forward and losing rather than sitting down and negotiating an agreement in a bipartisan way?

Mitch McConnell does not have 60 votes. And if he goes forward tonight at 10:00 as I understand he will, he will lose.

We need to have an annual budget because what is going on now is very, very dangerous and wasteful for our country.

The option that he has now is to say, OK, I don't have the 60 votes, let us sit down and negotiate, let us work in a nonpartisan way to address the crisis facing this country.

Mitch McConnell doesn't have 60. He doesn't have it. He knows he doesn't have it.

I think what is going on to me is very clear that the Republicans really want to shut down the government for whatever reason.

to paraphrase a Republican President I enjoyed knowing, here we go again. In 1995 Republicans shut down our government. They wanted to recklessly cut education programs and environmental programs, and they even wanted to raise Medicare…

we are at a pivotal moment. If the Congress does not get its act together by tomorrow, there will be a government shutdown. A government shutdown will be extraordinarily destructive to the people of our country, millions of whom depend…