This shutdown is not about health care. This shutdown was really about Democrats saying they want to show their resistance to President Trump.

Stop sending money just to insurance companies and hope it gets better. Give Americans freedom of choice.

I do. And it absolutely needs to.

it absolutely needs to – it needs to open today if we can get it open

Instead of negotiating with Democrats, Republicans would rather let air-traffic controllers go unpaid, they’d rather ground flights, and they’d rather punish travelers

I think we’ll have a breakthrough today.

There are some significant theological disagreements between Christians and Jews. My attitude is let's have those conversations, let's have those disagreements when we have them. But if there are shared areas of interest, we ought to be…

I am tired of political games.

Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability.

Americans deserve a tax rebate after four years of [Joe] Biden [White House] policies that have devastated families’ savings and livelihoods.

This is a reasonable offer that re-opens the government.

Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes healthcare affordability.

It’s not happening.

I am tired of political games.

Now, the ball is in Republicans’ court. We need Republicans to just say yes.

Now, the ball is in the Republicans' court. We need Republicans to just say yes.

This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability and begins a process of negotiating reforms to the ACA tax credits for the future.

If my Republican colleagues don't want to sit down and talk about saving 22 million Americans from skyrocketing health care costs, I hope they can at least agree that 750,000 children and their families shouldn't pay the price for…