The theater must end. Let’s sit down and negotiate.

The House Republicans-only spending bill fails to meet the needs of the American people and does nothing to stop the looming healthcare crisis.

By refusing to work with Democrats, Republicans are steering our country straight toward a shutdown.

We'll sit down and negotiate, if they will sit down and negotiate. We don't have a red line.

Today is a blessed day, a blessed day. We gather to celebrate our friend an amazing man, a great servant of God, Dr. Calvin Butts III.

What Republicans have done is chip away at the Senate even more, to give Donald Trump more power and to rubber-stamp whomever he wants, whenever he wants them, no questions asked.

If you go nuclear, it's going to be a decision you will come to regret.

And if Republicans go nuclear, the historically bad nominees we've seen so far under Donald Trump will get only worse.

This is a time that all Americans should come together and feel and mourn what happened. Violence, which affects so many different people, so many different political persuasions, is an affliction of America.

On this issue, we’re totally united. The Republicans have to come to meet with us in a true bipartisan negotiation to satisfy the American people’s needs on healthcare, or they won’t get our votes, plain and simple.

This is a sad, regrettable day for the Senate.

There’s been so much lying, obfuscation, cover-ups — the American people need to see everything that’s in the Epstein file.

This is awful and the assassination of Charlie Kirk risks an uncorking of political chaos and violence that we cannot risk in America.

if Republicans think Democrats are going to show up at the last minute to bail them out with the clock approaching zero, that would be a big mistake on their part.

what the Republicans have proposed is not good enough to meet the needs of the American people and not good enough to get our votes.

this would be a nightmare scenario for the American people.

There has been so many lies, so much prevarication, so much cover-up. The American people, Democrats, independents, Republicans are demanding it be made public, and it should be.

There has been so much lying, obfuscation, cover-ups, the American people need to see everything that’s in the Epstein file, and my amendment would make that happen.

Look, the bottom line is the American people need to see this. Donald Trump has lied about this.

It’s got to be bipartisan. And second, we have focused for the last month and a half on how there’s lots of bad things in what the Trump administration has done.

Sen. Thune was very involved. He seemed very willing to come up with an agreement, and then, at the last minute, of course, Donald Trump said, literally, to me, ‘Go to hell.’ And the talks fell apart.

If Republicans go nuclear, the historically bad nominees we’ve seen so far under Donald Trump will get only worse.

We know about their 191 consecutive days in combat, from the trenches of France to the banks of the Reine.

Three times this year, Senate Democrats tried to extend the ACA tax credits to keep coverage affordable, and three times Republicans said no. Democrats won’t stop fighting to lower costs and protect families’ care.

The only way to avoid a shutdown is to work in a bipartisan way, with a bill that can get both Republican and Democratic votes in the Senate.