Barbara Boxer: “Senator Baucus is right. This is so critical. We cannot afford to pass up this opportunity. We need a multi-year bill.”

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

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…

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

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.