Chris Hollen actually said...

"the Republican budget would not be in balance in 10 years if not for the Medicare savings in the Affordable Care Act."

"to tie the defunding of the Affordable Care Act to the debt ceiling is to say, well, we're going to attach something that will increase the debt to a provision on the debt ceiling."

"the position our Republican colleagues unfortunately have taken is that we're going to shut down the government if we don't accomplish the goal of shutting down the Affordable Care Act."

"Congressman Van Hollen today... said that they have 30 days in order to be able to work out a diplomatic solution to this and if that doesn't happen, then the president would get the authority to do t..."