Barbara Boxer: “This committee is going to deal with the reauthorization. What we heard from every member... is that we need certainty…”

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

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.

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.