Again, 717,000 backlogged, benefit claims backlogged. There is work to be done, and that does not send a positive message.
Five years of government by crisis has been taking place... A budget wasn't passed either of those 2 years.
We have offered four bills to fund the entire government, rejected by the Senate-controlled Senate.
I am sick of hearing of this shutdown called anything other than a Democrat shutdown.
I am concerned about the pain that will be coming even worse for Mayor Bryan and Ms. Eberly and other private concession...
The fact that I have so many Federal employees who are furloughed and aren't working, I don't relish that, and I am pret...
The fact that veterans may not get benefits because we are holding our breath right now in Congress is pretty disgusting...
Though I believe, very clearly, leadership on the other side of the aisle relishes this shutdown taking place and the pa...
It is time for us to stand together and ask the Senate and the President to show leadership and negotiate to a solution.
But I also think about the 59-year-old woman in Jackson, Michigan, who calls my office in tears, a single mother...
The fact that Head Start kids in my district, including in Beloit, Wisconsin, where, the day after I was there visiting,...