"As we speak, I believe the House of Representatives is taking up this debt limit deal."
"So if that is limited on the Federal side, separate and apart from a dollar, a grant, or a favorable loan, this is hurting more than it is helping."
"I believe we can and we must come together in a bipartisan fashion to make these meaningful investments."
"In the end, we can't be truly an equal society, we can't truly call ourselves a compassionate country, and no one can truly pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness unless every family has t..."
"Congress needs to step up."
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin with a question for Judge de Alba."
"What used to be a roughly narrow and defined 'wildfire season' no longer applies."
"Despite the slimmest of majorities in the House of Representatives, Republicans are effectively saying to President Biden, and to Senate Democrats and the America people that we must have to accept th..."
"Let's be clear. That the hostages they're taking, or threatening to take isn't the federal government, it's the American people, including their own constituents. A default would plunge our economy in..."
"Now I was planning to raise an issue of veterans, and I'm glad that Senator Marshall made reference to it in his remarks because my understanding is that nowhere in the House Republicans Default on Am..."
"We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under democratic and republican administrations, pass a clean lifting of the debt ceiling."
"But to hold hostage for a budget conversation is wrong, and the exact budget plan not being offered or suggested, or considered, but passed by House Republicans would only make a horrible, horrible si..."