We have ten percent of our workforce that works for the Federal Government--ten percent of our workforce. It has had a h...
You hear the numbers, you hear the thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people and millions of people, but u...
You know, we do not have the Federal workers who usually come in here and have lunch. I do not know how much longer we c...
It is Congress's responsibility to do this. Uncertainty is really hurting this country.
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 th...
Even worse, our country is rapidly approaching the debt-ceiling deadline of October 17th.
I deeply regret the fact, going back to 'The Crucible,' that you are going to be pilloried here today.
I am trying to get to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
Yet Republicans seem willing to jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States of America unless we eliminate...
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.
October 1st was a historic day for our country, not because Speaker Boehner shut down the government but because it was ...
I represented a number of people, and they--when they got a notice of audit from the IRS or they got certain letters fro...
You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts.
Negotiate over what? See, that's the question.
We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts.
If they had such a problem with it they probably -- they could have challenged it, I guess, in the Supreme Court on that...
