Look, giving away a trillion and a half-dollars to corporations, to billionaires, to the wealthy and well-connected, while young people are struggling with student loan debt, while families can't have prescriptions filled, while…

Well, that's what he's done and we are now sitting here in the longest shutdown in American history.

We have the votes on the congressional side. But so far, Mitch McConnell is saying, no, the only one who has any power in Washington is Donald Trump.

This is manufactured crisis and it's starting to impose real pain -- real pain on families all across this country.

Look, we need to open the government. People are working jobs. I today was with TSA agents who are out doing their jobs trying to keep us safe, and they're not getting paid.

The death count in Puerto Rico has been proven to be now in the thousands.

It's just a prime example of government that works for the rich and the powerful and doesn't work for the people.

Right here in Puerto Rico, an island that's been devastated both by a financial crisis and by twin hurricanes, right now has a government that is taking money off the island in order to send it to Wall Street.

So I've been talking about a government in Washington that works great for the wealthy and to the well-connected but not so much for everyone else.

today is the 26th day of the longest government shutdown in American history. Weeks ago, the Senate voted unanimously to keep the government open. The House has now passed multiple bipartisan bills to end the shutdown, but President Trump…

Let me suggest, Mr. Chairman, if it is the same, just use the same words.

It is time to question whether it is too easy for companies to buy back their shares.