Barbara Boxer: “I note the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). The clerk will call the roll. The assistant…”

Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.

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…

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.