It is unacceptable in this country for almost a million workers to be out of jobs today because the Government is shut down.

This is completely unacceptable.

This is not right for the American people.

We could have FEMA at this table today if we put a clean continuing resolution on the floor.

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.

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 shutdown today.

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 Party Republicans has taken our country hostage as a part of their ideological crusade to overturn the law of the land…

They want to shut the government down. I am convinced.

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 saying, my way or the highway, it doesn't work.

Absolutely not. Wolf, we have a situation where the Republican Party has allowed a small minority, the Tea Party Republicans, to basically hijack not only in whole hostage, not only the Republican Party, but the Congress and the country.

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.

to tie the defunding of the Affordable Care Act to the debt ceiling is to say, well, we're going to attach something that will increase the debt to a provision on the debt ceiling.

the position our Republican colleagues unfortunately have taken is that we're going to shut down the government if we don't accomplish the goal of shutting down the Affordable Care Act.

we should adopt the kind of framework recommended by every bipartisan group that's looked at this issue.

Let's work together to replace it in a way that achieves the same amount of deficit reduction or more without the self-inflicted wound of hundreds of thousands fewer jobs.