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 America Act does it say that veterans…

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 their random demands, or they'll force…

Republicans have put us in this place of a looming crisis. We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under democratic and republican administrations, pass a clean lifting of the debt ceiling.

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 their random demands, or they'll force…

Republicans have put us in this place of a looming crisis. We can and should do, we've done numerous times before under democratic and republican administrations, pass a clean lifting of the debt ceiling.

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 into recession.

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 America Act does it say that veterans…

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 into recession.

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 their random demands, or they'll force…

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 situation that much worse.

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 America Act does it say that veterans…