Barbara Boxer: “So Mr. Trumka, we are all aware that the recent global recession ravaged many sectors of the Nation's economy.”

I think what our governor is doing, he's saying to the president without so many words, this -- this is a moment we have to come together for the people who are hurting. And by the way, you don't attach strings about, you know, voting to…

They've sold their soul, this party used to be called the Grand Old Party. And now it's a cowardly party of lies.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.