Political Quotes

“1 day into a government shutdown, we are in a hole as a body. I was just talking to one of my colleagues who said we ought to spend less time worrying about who threw us in this hole or how we ended up in this hole and more concern about getting out of it. I hope we can dispense with the signs--``The Trump Shutdown'' or ``The Schumer Shutdown''--and realize we are in a shutdown situation, now let's climb out of it. There are ways to do that. I believe we will be coming with a proposal today, and I hope we can vote on it today--we can with consent--to move the date from the 16th to the 8th. That would be significant. We don't need to go 4 weeks more in this CR. We can find an agreement to get out of it, to find some permanent solutions, some permanent funding solutions for the government. We can also find solutions on the DACA situation. I just want to encourage my colleagues to not use loaded phrases as well here. I have heard the term that we can't deal or we shouldn't deal with the illegal alien situation right now. Who could honestly look at a child who was brought across the border--the average age when these DACA kids were brought across the border was the age of 6. Some of them were toddlers, some of them were carried by their parents. Who in the world can look at them and refer to them as illegal aliens?…”