You have to get a lot of votes, and that means we're going to have to have alliances with people that we may not agree with 100% of the time, right?

The problem is that we are too effing safe all the time.

I'm sure you guys heard like, 'Oh, well, the Democrats need to have their own Joe Rogan.' We had Joe Rogan. We canceled Joe Rogan years ago.

People don't vote for a party, right? It's us that run as Democrats. We need to be the face of the party, and we need to be out there.

I think the Democrats messed up by not really focusing on that.

Big donors, big organizations, well-known political big Democratic operatives that have encouraged me to run. I’m not denying that.

running for president has 'f---ing of course' crossed his mind, while insisting it’s not on his immediate radar.

That’s a land mine.

Mr. President, we made some great progress this past week. I greatly--greatly--appreciate the work that we have done in a bipartisan manner. I want to thank my fellow colleagues across the aisle: Senator Warner, Senators Lummis, Hagerty…

They’re going to have to have the belief that Democrats are gonna be sane on border security, sane on immigration reform.

They want to hear that there is a message that Democrats can deliver that can bring the party back to a winning situation — bring back working-class people, because that’s where we’re really getting f---ed and losing votes.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 2 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

I think there’s still a lot of elements within our party that take a very knee-jerk reaction to border security and think that any type of border security is somehow acquiescing to the right.

I think it’s a good thing that we have border crossings at the lowest point possible.

Mr. Speaker, the original Medicaid program was designed to help the disabled, pregnant women, seniors, and children. Then there was this expansion that came along, and it is filled with able-bodied adults of working age who could be…

My neighbors, people my kids go to school with depend on Medicaid.

Mr. Speaker, I could almost hear the joy from my staff saying: Hey, it is only 30 minutes this time, not an hour. Mr. Speaker, I want to do just a handful of things. One of these days we are going to have not enough noise about the facts…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 28 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 10 a.m. for morning-hour…