We are still right now in a government shutdown.

we've got to get out of the mess.

I think the way forward is clear: we need to end the shutdown and pay our bills.

I feel like we are back again, 'Groundhog Day.'

We have already lost a million jobs that we could have had in this country.

we can't keep doing this, basically.

I can't even imagine the effect of that.

Thank you very much. Secretary Foxx has been great about talking to the companies and trying to work on this.

I think safety delayed is safety denied.

One of the witnesses, Mark Zandi, who was an economic adviser to Senator McCain in his campaign, testified about how already just with the shutdown we've seen about a .5 percent decrease in domestic product growth.

I think we all know the simplest is the Senate bill simply opens the government, and that passed the Senate and we could move on from there.

I just had a hearing this morning with Congressman Brady. We both chair the Senate and House sides of the Joint Economic Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues for being down here to remember somebody who was, in many ways, bigger than life: big, tall Rod Grams. He wanted to do something for his State and his country, and he did. He came to the House of…

Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves 1 week into a government shutdown. That's something I hoped I would never have to say on the floor of this House. I did not want this; House Republicans did not want this; and the American people surely did…

We are wasting valuable time and resources by a self-inflicted wound that should be going toward our veterans.

I trust that you--and the thing I would say about this is, the comment that we shouldn't be talking about furloughs or whatever, the VA is an organization of people.

Not supporting veterans isn't one of them.

I am disappointed, to say the least.