We're all afraid . . .

There is talking going on.

This is not good. This is not good from a governance perspective. This doesn’t reflect well on anybody and it is hurting real people [in] real time, so let’s figure out a way to end it.

This is day 30 of the Federal Government shutdown. Agencies are shuttered. Important services are paused and unavailable. Countless Americans have missed paychecks because of our failure to do our job to keep the government open. It only…

we are in day 27 of a government shutdown--27 days where the government is shut down--and yet we are here. You are presiding. We have pages on the floor. There are people in the Gallery. There are people coming and going. We have Capitol…

I think it’s time for both Republicans and Democrats to be sitting down together to talk about, how do we end this impasse?

They’re seeing the impact of a government shutdown on them and their families that is personal and with potential for really harmful impacts.

Everything still seems to be the same, except it’s not. Except most of these people aren’t getting paid.

I came in at the tail end of the comments from my colleague and my friend from Delaware. He has underscored some points that I think are important to remind us here in the Senate but also people who are watching as we are in day 16 of the…

Yeah, there’s a lack of trust.

If you're a Democrat, you're looking at it and you say, 'Why? Why am I going to try to be helpful if Mr. Vought at OMB is just going to do a back-door move and rescind what we've been working on?'

we have all talked about what the primary goal is right now in the Senate. It is to reopen the Federal Government, but that is not all we need to reopen right now. As we focus on ending this shutdown, I have come to speak in support of a…

The Department of Justice has long been insulated from presidential administrations to protect public trust in the rule of law.

The strength of our democracy rests on the public’s trust in equal justice under law.

But that independence is called into question when overt political pressure from the White House leads to unusual personnel changes and criminal charges filed just days after the President calls for them.

Former FBI Director James Comey, like any American, is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial.

I don’t think we’re going to be able to get a permanent extension; I don’t think that’s wise.

We want to have this based on science.

You have a solid number of appropriators who are very concerned about the direction that the OMB director has taken with this pocket rescission.

I was not pleased at all when Susan Monarez was asked to step down and the vacancies in leadership that we now have at CDC.

The fact is, advancing the final appropriations bills and avoiding a government shutdown will require a great deal of hard work and collaboration when Congress resumes session next week.

This is another opportunity for the Arctic to serve as a venue that brings together world leaders to forge meaningful agreements.

And when you fire people, then it makes people trust them even less.

I don’t think that somebody who has counseled other attorneys that you should ignore the law, you should reject the law — I don’t think that that individual should be placed in a lifetime seat on the bench.

Just deal with the Epstein thing once and for all.