"They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate."
"You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts."
"We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts."
"If they had such a problem with it they probably -- they could have challenged it, I guess, in the Supreme Court on that basis."
"You err on the side of opening up government."
"I guarantee you. I bet everything I've got, except my wife and kids, that if you put this order forward with a clean, a clean CR it would pass."
"This is the law."
"I did not come to the Congress to throw Mr. Labrador's constituents under the bus, and I'm not throwing mine under the bus."
"If they put a clean resolution on the floor, it would pass and there would be no government shutdown."
"Today is the first time the Federal Government has shut down in 17 years. This has happened because a small group of Tea Party Republicans has taken our country hostage as a part of their ideological ..."
"I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to ask your leadership to put a clean CR on the floor and end this shutdown today."