"I would like to take a moment to speak on the bipartisan resolution denouncing the practice of female genital mutilation."
"I feel like we are playing with everybody's lives in these partisan games."
"I think that we can all agree that we are in a bad place."
"I share the responsibility with Congress to make sure that that happens, but I also have learned a little bit about the--your responsibility as well on your side of the table to make sure that you pro..."
"I have learned about my job here is to make sure that we deliver a budget on time"
"what I see is a bunch of White men, and what I am interested in is what we are doing to make sure that we elevate people of color and women to those highest positions of responsibility, STEM and STEAM..."
"I firmly believe that the work that you do prevents the work that my family needs to do."
"I would very much like to have a very specific answer to that question because I am also a former teacher, and deadlines matter."
"I watched as constituents at home went without pay, and people were used as pawns in political negotiations."
"But what we should never tolerate is federal workers and contractors being forced to work without pay because we in the executive and legislative branches have failed to perform our very basic duties ..."
"I am the daughter of a refugee who came here 70 years ago, and these issues are critically important to me as well."
"What I am trying to understand is in a world where we have these caps, which are not being met."