We yield back time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is all time yielded back? The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 194 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are now 2 minutes of debate, equally divided…

The American people understand that our current economic system is rigged and that our campaign finance system is corrupt.

I am running for president because now, more than ever, we need leadership that brings us together, not divides us up.

We need to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails and incarceration.

When we stand together, and when we have the courage to take on the powerful special interests who have so much control over our political and economic life, there is nothing, nothing, nothing that we cannot accomplish.

We need to end the disgrace of having more people in jail than any other country on Earth.

When millions of people stand up and fight, they win.

all across our country--in Vermont, in Illinois, in California--all across this country, people are asking a very simple question. That question is, How does it happen that in the midst of the extraordinary wealth that exists in our…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Sanders pertaining to the introduction of S. 309 are printed in today's…

obviously, this is a happy and positive day not only for Federal employees but for the American people as we reopen the government, but we should also indicate there is something absolutely pathetic about what has happened. Let us not…

Today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism. And I must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a President of the United States who is a racist.

We have a President Who Is A 'Racist'

This is what drives the American people crazy. Eight hundred thousand workers today, including the FBI, including the TSA, including very decent people who are trying to support their families.

It's time for the president to grow up and to listen to the needs of the American people, and not just his own ego.

They have got to understand that the Senate is an independent part of the United States government. They don't work for President Trump. They work for the American people and their constituents.

But to say to the president, look, we're all part of the team. But you're not the dictator.

And I ask and I beg my Republican colleagues, stand up to Trump, do the right thing for this country.

And I think that while Trump told the American people he wanted this shutdown, I think he has got to understand that is not in the best interests of this country.

Well, I think the American people are going to have to stand up and tell Donald Trump that when he told us several weeks ago that he wanted to shut down the government, that he was wrong.

You cannot have a president who makes important decisions and overrides what the United States Congress has worked hard to do because he saw something on a TV program.

We should not be wasting $5 billion on a wall when there are much more cost-effective ways to do border security.

I think that the wall is an absurd idea. I think it's a waste of money. I think it just fans Trump's illusions and no, I'm not going to support $5 billion or money for a wall.

Well, you just had it right on your program a few moments ago, where the president said, I take responsibility for the shutdown.

I opposed the MISSION Act.

we are in the process of dismembering the VA, taking resources away from the VA, putting it into the private sector.