Joe Courtney actually said...

"Using the lever of default as a way of basically, you know, putting this country at gunpoint, in terms of having to adopt policies that fall outside the appropriations process and the authorizing proc..."

"if we really want to do something to help this country, is we need to fix this problem"

"Simply put-even in the face of rising interest rates-Americans are back to work and businesses are thriving, thanks to the Biden-Harris administration's economic agenda."

"Had we not acted, these pensions would have failed, workers and retirees-from truckers to bricklayers-would have lost nearly everything they had worked to save."