I represent a beef-producing state.

Every day that passes, we got less time to fund the government.

I don’t know what there is to negotiate.

We're not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage.

It is finally time to move in the next 30 days on the secondary sanctions bill that would further reduce Russia's ability to sell oil to buyers like India, China, and others.

I think the time is right.

I think it’s a bill whose time has come.

I’m hoping to get it scheduled.

I think we need to move.

We are all about getting health insurance down, making it more affordable to more people.

I hope it doesn’t last through Thanksgiving, because that’s going to be a lot of harm to the American people and obviously a lot of harm to federal workers.

At some point, Democrats have to take ‘yes’ for an answer.

If anything was needed to demonstrate just how fundamentally uninterested Democrats are in supporting our troops and defending our country, just take a look at this vote.

I remember when Democrats used to care about the effects of a government shutdown.

Fifteen days into a government shutdown, Democrats show no sign that they're ready for it to end.

Let’s hope there are 5 more Democrats who will join us, because despite all of the good work we’ve done, there’s a lot more we could do if the Schumer Shutdown ends.

It’s time for them to get a backbone.

I fully support Senate committees getting to the bottom of this outrageous abuse of power and weaponization of the government.

Release the hostage. We’ll have that conversation.

We can’t make commitments or promises on the Covid subsidies because that’s not something that we can guarantee that there are the votes there to do.

I’m all about getting it back open again. I think shutdowns are— nobody wins, and I think honestly, for the most part, they’re stupid.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to open up the government. If that fails, we’ll give them the weekend to think about it. We’ll come back, vote again Monday.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to keep, to open up the government.

Tom, let's come back to the basic premise: This is avoidable.

if the government shuts down, it is on the Senate Democrats.