I am trying to get to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

This is the law.

We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts.

You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts.

They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.

If they had such a problem with it they probably -- they could have challenged it, I guess, in the Supreme Court on that basis.

Negotiate over what? See, that's the question.

I did not come to the Congress to throw Mr. Labrador's constituents under the bus, and I'm not throwing mine under the bus.

I guarantee you. I bet everything I've got, except my wife and kids, that if you put this order forward with a clean, a clean CR it would pass.

You err on the side of opening up government.

We are negotiating with a government, a country run by evil liars.

we would like to see diplomacy work.

When you negotiate with evil liars, everything that you--all of your lines have to be clearly marked out.

You stop enrichment of uranium. Number two, you allow the existing stockpiles to be transferred and removed from your country.

China is still buying a significant amount of oil from Iran.

we need to increase the pressure, not reduce the pressure on Iran at this point.

this shutdown is really hurting this country in so many ways; so many ways.

They are running this Congress, and they are running us in the ground, and the American people find this completely unacceptable.