Rand Paul: “I think the answer is to pay more people and not fewer people and to try to get through shutdowns without having people…”

“I think the answer is to pay more people and not fewer people and to try to get through shutdowns without having people go without pay who are doing their jobs. Now, the proposal was made, and I just simply made a proposal that would pay everybody. So the Senator from Louisiana has objected to paying everyone, and I don't quite understand this. We could pay everyone. We could have paid everyone had he agreed to my motion. My motion was to pay everyone--to pay the soldiers; to pay the air traffic controllers; to pay the staff; to pay everybody who is working. Yet there was an objection. So I don't understand what is going on here. Should the emphasis be to pay fewer people or more people? Why would we try to punish certain groups of people instead of paying all of the people who are working? Why would we not do that? So I don't understand the process we have gone through here. I, for one, believe that the workers should be paid. I, for one, believe that we should fix this permanently.”