Barbara Boxer: “We have to mark up this bill before we leave this summer. We have to get this bill to the Senate floor and pass it.”

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…

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.

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.