This is not right for the American people.
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...
If we let them get away with this, heaven knows what will happen the next time.
They want to shut the government down. I am convinced.
Absolutely not. Wolf, we have a situation where the Republican Party has allowed a small minority, the Tea Party Republi...
Wolf, I don't care what kind of relationship it is, you and your wife or your son or daughter, if you've got one person ...
we're focused on something very different than solving this long-term challenge.
that is irresponsible and reckless given the impact that not paying our bills would have on the economy.
The responsible way to do it is the way the law prescribes.
I would just, again, ask that the majority in this House allow us a simple vote on our plan to replace the sequester to ...
That is an unnecessary self-inflicted wound.
we think that we need to have a balanced approach because if you do it only by cutting on the health care side, you are ...
our view is that your tax plan does exactly that, because you say you are going to get the top rate down to 25 percent.....
What you are saying is that default on any obligation would send a very bad signal?
Let's work together to replace it in a way that achieves the same amount of deficit reduction or more without the self-i...
That's a self-inflicted wound. That's a wound that this country cannot afford.
