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Yesterday, the Senate took a major step forward on the path to reopening the government. The bill before us is simple. It is clean. It is bipartisan. It is a continuing resolution, and it funds the government through January. It is paired…

Yesterday, Chuck Schumer, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, came to the floor with his most recent ransom note. Of course, it wasn't serious. It was dead on arrival. Senator Schumer is demanding that the U.S. Government send a check…

Today is November 7, 2025. We are now 1 month and 7 days into the longest shutdown in the history of the American Government. Democrats can stand here and claim they have broken the record, but for what? For leverage? For politics…

This isn't lawmaking. This is a political stunt by the Democrats. The resolution they are offering is empty. It is meaningless. Democrats shut down this government. Democrats have voted against reopening the government 13 times. Democrats…

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Today marks day 28 of the Schumer shutdown of the U.S. Government. Democrats continue to block a clean continuing resolution that would reopen the government. For them, it is a big game, and for the American people, they continue to…

Today is day 23 of the Schumer shutdown of the government, and we just heard the minority leader--right here on the floor--continue to practice the politics of pain, and it is pain felt by the American people. Remember, Senator Schumer is…

one of our colleagues just spent over 22 hours on this floor reading from a book, reciting poetry, one poem at least four times, and talking about renovations currently going on at the White House. It was 22 hours of what I can only…

Today is day 16 of the Schumer shutdown. Democrats have an opportunity to end the charade today. We will be voting in the next few moments. I expect they won't. Why? Well, for starters, the minority leader believes 'every day gets better…

Today is day 15 of the Schumer shutdown. Here we are, over 2 weeks into this, and the Democrats continue to play a dangerous game. The Schumer shutdown continues to put lives at risk, and it is doing it each and every day. Every day an…

today is day 14 of the Schumer shutdown, and Democrats continue to betray the American people. Let me read some of the headlines I have seen over the last several days. The Military Times writes: ``Military families seek out food…

following up with what the majority leader just said, I have here the Washington Post from this morning, and they have an editorial. And what they have in bold print says: Democratic leaders play a dangerous game. That is what the…

the American people reject what is going on here, and that is the Schumer shutdown. We are now in day 7 of the Schumer shutdown--7 days of wasted time and growing hardship for the American people. There is a new Harvard-Harris poll that…

it is very obvious that Democrats are losing the Schumer shutdown. Even their media allies are turning against them. Here is an editorial from today's Washington Post. The headline is ``The shutdown conversation no one wants.'' The…

America is now in the middle of the Schumer shutdown. Two in three Americans oppose it. Democrats are holding the American people hostage. They are demanding $1.5 trillion in new spending, and that is just to keep the government open for 4…

Senate Democrats have now dragged us into the Schumer shutdown. When I say "us," I mean all of us as Americans. It didn't have to happen, and it certainly doesn't need to continue. Americans are overwhelmingly against the shutdown of our…

we just heard the minority leader come to the floor of the Senate, once again, refusing to admit it is the Democrats who are driving America into a shutdown. Let me remind everyone what Senator Schumer, himself, said in 2013. That was when…

the government is on the verge of a Democrat-caused shutdown, a shutdown of the Government of the United States of America. Senator Schumer has sent us a ransom note. It is not about a negotiation; it is about a shakedown. That is what we…

2 years ago, when the government was on the brink of a shutdown, the then-majority leader, now-minority leader, Senator Schumer of New York, wrote a letter to his colleagues--I have it here--dated September 2023. It says: Dear Colleague…

Regular order? No. One trillion dollars in ransom for 4 weeks of keeping the government open. It is filled with partisan, political poison pills that will never become law. What we are seeing today from the minority leader is exactly what…

keeping the government open is a fundamental responsibility of elected officials. It always needs to be bipartisan, and today, that requires cooperation by the Democrats. Right now, the Democrats are threatening once again to shut down the…

once again, Senate Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. A government shutdown is bad for everyone. The cost of a Democrat shutdown is staggering. Reopening the government after a shutdown is even more costly. And who pays…

I rise today to extend a warm welcome to His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch, on the occasion of his official visit to the United States. His All-Holiness is a respected spiritual…

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