Bernie Sanders

We have major crisis facing this country. We have 27 million people in the Community Health Center program.

Unfortunately Anderson, and sadly most American now, the president says one thing today, another thing tomorrow depending on who got to him last. Sadly, the president lies a whole lot of times.

What most security experts understand, is that you can protect the border in a much more cost effective way with modern technology.

And the idea that they could lose the legal status that Trump took away from them and face deportation would be an incredible moral stain on this country.

I think there are serious Republicans here who want to do the right thing.

Potentially, but, you know, what since Donald Trump had made that announcement in September, over 15,000 'DREAMERS' have lost their protective status. They cannot work, and they're lives are in limbo. And so the idea that nothing happens…

What we are talking about today is to address the crisis facing Dreamers. This was a crisis precipitated by President Trump when he rescinded Obama's executive order.

I don't want a shutdown. I think a shutdown is bad for millions of people who depend on government services, certainly bad for federal employees.

We can reach an agreement in terms of how much we spend on the military and how much we spend on the needs -- the domestic needs of working families.

Let me repeat. He does not have the votes. He knows he does not have the votes. Why do you go forward and losing rather than sitting down and negotiating an agreement in a bipartisan way?

Mitch McConnell does not have 60 votes. And if he goes forward tonight at 10:00 as I understand he will, he will lose.

We need to have an annual budget because what is going on now is very, very dangerous and wasteful for our country.

The option that he has now is to say, OK, I don't have the 60 votes, let us sit down and negotiate, let us work in a nonpartisan way to address the crisis facing this country.

Mitch McConnell doesn't have 60. He doesn't have it. He knows he doesn't have it.

I think what is going on to me is very clear that the Republicans really want to shut down the government for whatever reason.

I think everybody knows that Oprah is an tremendously intelligent, articulate person, but I think it's solely to be speculating an election that would take place in three years.

Hey, Mr. President, get Mexico to pay for that wall, not the American taxpayers.

I'm worried that there's been a lot of activity on the part of Republican leaders that lead me to believe they want to shut down the government and that's bad.

What we have seen in the last year is a Republican leadership trying to throw 30 million people off of health insurance and then moving to give huge tax breaks to the rich and large corporations.

Just a bottom line here for me is let Mr. Mueller conduct this important investigation. I hope the president cooperates.

I think the investigation that Mr. Mueller is doing is extremely important. And if he feels that it's imperative to do the investigation right to have the president testify, yes, I do think the president should.

No one in America should be hungry, no one should be homeless, and no one should lack access to healthcare.

Let me translate that into English. In other words, as I understand what the Senator is saying, billionaire campaign contributors could then legally put money into churches, which would then do the political work that they otherwise would…

It impacts every person in America. Would he mind telling the American people just how many public hearings there were to hear from economists, to hear from the business community, to hear from labor, to hear from senior advocates, to…

If I could ask my colleague from Oregon a simple question--he is the ranking member of the Finance Committee. This is a bill that deals with trillions of dollars in our entire economy.