Patty Murray actually said...

"The elephant in the room of the Congress today is how we are going to come to agreement and avoid a shutdown."

"I want to see what those other ideas are."

"I think we all know we need to invest in our infrastructure, but we've got to find a way to pay for them."

"This is less a debate about taming the deficit, which we all agree we need to be doing, but it really is a question of priorities."