Amy Klobuchar

I definitely concur and believe that they are important.

For every dollar we invest, there is a $2.60 savings.

I know how we need to keep dangerous offenders behind bars.

To the extent that Congress acts to establish Federal policy, then that is a 'mandate' for the Administration.

Broadband is absolutely essential.

We want equal opportunity for all.

Instead of having the brinkmanship we've been engaging in, ... to be engaged in discussions about the workforce training.

And thank you, Senator Sununu, for coming back on this important topic.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for doing this hearing.

I say that our job is to score a touchdown for the American people. And we do that by opening the government again, so we've got approvals going, cancer clinical trials going, and so that we also send a message we're going to pay our bills.

It's been an incredibly productive day after a long, long week. And we feel very good about this. I think the two major focuses were to open up the government again, and then to make sure that we're not defaulting, that we're paying our…

I think we all know the simplest is the Senate bill simply opens the government, and that passed the Senate and we could move on from there.

I just had a hearing this morning with Congressman Brady. We both chair the Senate and House sides of the Joint Economic Committee.

I can't even imagine what people will think, as they call us all the time when they are bugged by these calls.

I think safety delayed is safety denied.

One of the witnesses, Mark Zandi, who was an economic adviser to Senator McCain in his campaign, testified about how already just with the shutdown we've seen about a .5 percent decrease in domestic product growth.

I can't even imagine the effect of that.

Thank you very much. Secretary Foxx has been great about talking to the companies and trying to work on this.

Our witness today, Mark Zandi, warned this Committee last month that shuttering the government for three or four weeks would do significant economic damage, reducing real gross domestic product by 1.4 percentage points in the 4th quarter.

If we don't approach things with the spirit of compromise, it is going to be very hard to do that kind of long-term debt reduction.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The government has now been shut down for more than a week and a half, and the costs are mounting.

We've got to get out of the mess.

We are still right now in a government shutdown.

I think the way forward is clear: we need to end the shutdown and pay our bills.