Rick Scott: “we are down to the 34th day of this partial government shutdown. For 34 days, the men and women who are serving our…”

“we are down to the 34th day of this partial government shutdown. For 34 days, the men and women who are serving our Federal Government at DHS have been forced to work without pay and without certainty about their future. As I said on the floor yesterday, this is the third time in the last 6 months that the hard-working Americans who work to keep us safe every day have had to worry about how they are going to pay mortgages, pay rent, buy gas, and bring home groceries to feed their kids. I think that is clearly unfair, and it is un-American. And while the American people are standing in line for hours at the airport and watching this unfold on the evening news, they are asking a reasonable question: What do Democrats actually want to accomplish by shutting down the Department of Homeland Security? Yesterday, I talked about some of the stories of TSA agents. They are not getting paid. They are worried about their mortgages, their rent, putting food on the table. They can't send their kids to camp. They can't go on vacation. And I think, in 5 days, on the 27th, they lose a full paycheck. But let's talk about some of the other people. Let me talk about Ambria Britt. In a CNN story published yesterday, Ambria Britt, who has multiple sclerosis and cannot stand for long periods, told a reporter that she was forced to pay a stranger to push her wheelchair through the jammed line.”