Tina Smith actually said...

"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."

"We`re not going to let that happen."

"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..."