I worked hard and successfully with others to make sure that workers who work with Federal contractors get at least a minimum wage above $7.25 an hour.

CBO estimated that the change would increase the number of uninsured people by 13 million within 10 years.

Are you concerned that virtually every major defense contractor----

I apologize, Mr. Chairman, but what I would like to get back from you is your ideas of what we can do about excessive CEO salaries.

So we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars defending ourselves from China while major corporation after major corporation is shutting down in the United States.

Do we have an epidemic of fraud and illegal behavior within the defense contractors industry?

Is your argument that most of these cost overruns are the responsibility of the DoD who has changed the nature of the contract?

Does cost-plus, for the laymen here, mean I am going to give you a $2 billion estimate, but if it costs me more, I am going to bill you more?

CBO found that 23 million fewer people would have health insurance after 10 years.

your job is to tell the American people how our tax dollars are being spent.

Twenty-eight years does seem to be enough time for the Pentagon under Democratic and Republican leadership to maybe get its act together and give us an audit.

You do not do that by cutting Social Security. What you do do is say to the wealthiest people in this country, who in many ways have never had it so good, you recognize the fact that income and wealth inequality is worse today than at any…

You have just created a situation--not you; the President must take responsibility for this budget--created a situation where people will go cold, some may freeze to death, and that is not what we should be doing in America.

Let me tell the President, Mr. Mulvaney, it gets cold in Vermont and many other parts of this country.

Is that a proper issue for the U.S. Government to look into?

It might be a good idea for the Budget Committee to actually produce a budget.

I would hope that nobody here believes that just because this is the Department of Defense, we will defend an enormous amount of bureaucratic waste.

Am I correct in saying that the legislation would add more than $1.7 trillion to the deficit when interest costs are included?

I have heard about the world collapsing when we add to the deficit and the national debt.

I come before my colleagues in the Senate to urge in the strongest possible terms that the Republican leadership here accept its responsibility and not allow the Government of the United States of America to shut down. Republicans control…

we are at a pivotal moment. If the Congress does not get its act together by tomorrow, there will be a government shutdown. A government shutdown will be extraordinarily destructive to the people of our country, millions of whom depend…

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.

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…

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.