Jim DeMint: “Europe and the United States share a common set of values and we have a long history that is founded on the ideas of…”

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.

Senator DeMint says let's use the Federal Government as an exemplar for how to reopen.