"But I also think about the 59-year-old woman in Jackson, Michigan, who calls my office in tears, a single mother..."
"Though I believe, very clearly, leadership on the other side of the aisle relishes this shutdown taking place and the pain that it brings about for political reasons."
"The fact that veterans may not get benefits because we are holding our breath right now in Congress is pretty disgusting to me."
"The fact that Head Start kids in my district, including in Beloit, Wisconsin, where, the day after I was there visiting, a bullet went through their window--it is in a pretty tough neighborhood. The f..."
"The fact that I have so many Federal employees who are furloughed and aren't working, I don't relish that, and I am pretty disgusted by it."
"I just want to clear the record. I don't think there is a single person here who would say they relish the shutdown."
"It is time for us to stand together and ask the Senate and the President to show leadership and negotiate to a solution."
"So in other words there was a lot of flexibility that credits could still be claimed years down the road."
"I think they need to do a lessons-learned process from a tactical and strategic perspective."
"the American public and this panel doesn't feel like we have that access to information necessary to make good decisions about the movement forward"
"the American public deserves it, and especially the families sitting in this room and not deserve that information."
"Public testimony is necessary in front of a committee such as this so that the American people can get the truth."