Michael Bennet: “I thank the Senator from Texas. Actually, it is fun to remember all this, and I am sorry I don't have a phone on my…”

“I thank the Senator from Texas. Actually, it is fun to remember all this, and I am sorry I don't have a phone on my desk. Nobody can send me my prior quotes or his prior quotes. I wish I had thought to do that. But I have a pretty good memory, and the facts are on the floor. The facts are the facts. When we were out here in 2019--and, by the way, I would never confuse the Senator from Texas with Senator Schumer. So let's establish that at the outset. I know you are two different people. You are very different people. When we were out here in 2019, though, what I was talking about was, I was reminding people of the shutdown you led in 2013 while Colorado was underwater, while there were cities and towns all over our State who had been crushed by the floodwaters that had started in these unexpected storms and come rushing through these mountain valleys and ended up destroying towns and villages. It looked like bombs had gone off. The people in Colorado were digging themselves out. There were people--local elected officials, Democrats and Republicans--who were doing the work they needed to do. And the Federal Government was shut down because of Senator Cruz from Texas. That is what happened. Those people are owed an apology for what the Senator of Texas did. And then he came out here in 2019 pretending that he cared about trying to resolve--by the way, it wasn't Chuck Schumer's shutdown. It was Donald Trump's shutdown. He was the President.…”