Not to have FEMA at the table because of a Government shutdown is unacceptable.
It is unacceptable in this country that we have a handful of renegades who are running this country.
We could have FEMA at this table today if we put a clean continuing resolution on the floor.
They are running this Congress, and they are running us in the ground, and the American people find this completely unac...
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 they put a clean resolution on the floor, it would pass and there would be no government shutdown.
Today is the first time the Federal Government has shut down in 17 years. This has happened because a small group of Tea...
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 ...
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.
If we let them get away with this, heaven knows what will happen the next time.
the Republican budget would not be in balance in 10 years if not for the Medicare savings in the Affordable Care Act.
We should adopt the kind of frameworks recommended by every bipartisan group that has looked at this issue in recent tim...
to tie the defunding of the Affordable Care Act to the debt ceiling is to say, well, we're going to attach something tha...
we're on an unsustainable path with respect to the debt.
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.
