Because they’ve decided to vote to shut the government down, they have now effectively turned off the legislative branch, the Article 1 branch of our government, and they’ve turned it over to the executive.

We have all voted repeatedly, over and over, to keep the government open, and it comes down to the necessity of 60 votes in the Senate.

Look, we’ll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants. It has nothing to do with it. I, we’re in pro forma session because there is nothing for the House to do. The House has done its job.

Let me look right into the camera and tell you clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about health care.

This has nothing to do with that.

I pray that more Democrats in the Senate will come to their senses and do the right thing.

The reason that House Republicans are home working in their districts... is because we did that.

Play the tape of Chuck Schumer saying consistently for the last 30 years that CRs are dangerous, destructive, and selfish.

We’re not saying that we won’t negotiate it. We’re saying turn the lights back on in Congress.

Chuck Schumer has shut it off because he needs a political argument right now.

In a situation like this, where the Senate Democrats have decided to turn the keys to the kingdom over to the White House, they have to make tough decisions.