Barbara Boxer: “The old bill had, as Senator Whitehouse called it, a death zone.”

It is absolutely false to say that FEMA is getting in the way.

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

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…