I want the government reopened now.

I would tell them that we need to ensure that reopening the government does not mean kicking my people off of health care.

I think fighting for democracy is never risky.

There is a chaos, and it is an intentional chaos, that we are seeing from this administration.

I'm not sure why we should be playing by a different set of rules than Texas, or than Florida, or than Ohio or all these other places.

I'm not going to allow Donald Trump to determine whether or not Maryland follows this idea of saying, are we going to do everything we can to make sure we're preserving our democracy.

Fighting for democracy is never risky.

My job is to make sure that I'm protecting the democratic process.

We will explore every avenue possible to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps.

to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps.

Trump should spend less time traveling around the world and more time negotiating an end to his shutdown.

Everything we've been doing here, and the whole reason that we're in Washington, even though the Republicans are not, is to demand that they come back, reopen the government, restore health care to everybody, and get past this crisis.

This is why we have primaries, so we can have a contest of different people’s views.

Ron Johnson’s bill would essentially weaponize the government shutdown to allow President Trump to decide who works and gets paid and who doesn’t work and doesn’t get paid.

We should not be punishing federal employees for something they had nothing to do with. They’re not responsible. They’re innocent bystanders.

Our belief is that no federal employee, no one should bear the burden or be punished for a shutdown they have nothing to do with.

Because we don’t just have to rail against what’s going on, the horrible things that are coming on from Washington, D.C., right now.

Everybody is about to learn. We don’t bend the knee; we don’t capitulate. We do not compromise on our values. We fight for our people, and we leave no one behind.