Tina Smith actually said...

"This is an important issue and something that is directly affecting the lives of my constituents in Minnesota."

"Well, Democrats are prepared to raise the debt ceiling and to do the right thing and if the Republicans aren`t going to help us all, they just need to get out of the way. And Mitch McConnell`s ploy he..."

"What McConnell is trying to do here is he wants us to have to take votes to raise the debt limit by a specific amount because he thinks that if we do that, that it`s going to distract America from the..."

"He is using this as a partisan weapon. And that is what people hate about politics and we are not going to let him get away with it."