On the recordJanuary 21, 2018
I agree with the senior Senator from Hawaii. Give us just a day. Go back to the Murphy continuing resolution. You don't need to have 3 days. Give us 1 day so we can reel in the government, so that if we don't finish by 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, the government is closed right now. We know that. I would like to ask Senator Tillis and the Presiding Officer and the Republican leadership if they would just give us that day or two to negotiate in earnest and fix this. All of us are willing to stay here all night. We stayed the weekend, and we will stay as long as we need to because I don't want the public to see ``closed'' signs on all of these government offices. I don't want to see Federal employees show up to work and be turned away. I don't want to see workers inside and outside the gate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base find out that their lives have changed. We can fix that by asking unanimous consent to open up the government now and give us a few days to do this. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Carolina.
