Michael Bennet: “Thank you for doing it.”

the hour is late. I want to thank the Presiding Officer for being here. I am glad to be here with my colleague from New Hampshire and my neighbor from New Mexico. I want to thank the floor staff that is here tonight. And I would like to…

I will continue to push for necessary guardrails, critical reforms, and work towards preventing the opening of this facility.

I want us to be something different, but we can’t do any of it if we don’t have a growing economy.

I think, this evening, as we are standing here, this will mark the longest shutdown in American history, and that is not something that anybody in this Chamber should be proud about. I have had the opportunity, since I have been here, to…