Jim DeMint: “Thank you, Madam Chairman.”

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

We can hardly sit in judgment of your losing $2 billion. We lose twice that every day here in Washington and plan to continue to do that every day.

I think you would have to agree that the activism has been unprecedented and reason to at least cause some concern?

What we need to know is what we can do about the problems. I have gotten a sense from what has been said today that this is not a matter of us needing more laws, but more enforcement of our laws.