"To not have a budget is inexcusable. For us to be sitting here flying blind, you would not do it in your business."
"What it is going to take, Congressman, is a couple of bridges collapsing, which is going to happen, and then maybe you will prioritize."
"Every American deserves to be able to have security, safety, pay their bills on time, know what life is going to bring to them instead of seeing nothing but darkness, no hope or anything."
"We are smashing, we are stomping on, and we are killing people's, who work in the low wage industry, dreams of having something more, doing something more."
"We deserve an increase not because we need more money, but because we want to be a better citizen, a better mother, a better father."
"this is a constitutional malfeasance if it is done."
"The truth is that most of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle oppose statehood because they believe it could dilute their power."
"The right to democracy should not be contingent on party registration."
"As President Abraham Lincoln declared in the Gettysburg Address, 'A true democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people.'"
"I'm tired of forming a committee to study a committee when nobody has any power."
"I appreciate you clarifying the deficit of empathy, because I thought that's who you were talking about here."
"Unfortunately, it seems that my Democratic colleagues are intent on politicizing scientific integrity."