My hope is that even my Democratic colleagues are seeing the light.

I offered a proposal 3 years ago to give people the honest choice to keep their plans, but every one of the majority party in the Senate voted against it.

What is the administration doing to help the millions of people who will suffer as a result of the President's broken promise?

Sounds similar to what the President has promised with health care.

Well, as millions of Americans are, unfortunately, finding out, that just is not the case.

I am working on a bill with Senator Ron Johnson and 36 others that would allow Americans to keep their health care if they like it.

I don't think people care where it's stored.

That was voted down on straight party lines. I think some people will probably be paying for that in the next election.

It's my understanding that there was testing still going on the day before the Web site opened.

Fortunately, 3 years ago, I noticed that the rules were changing and that people would not be able to keep what they had been promised.

I'm from a low population State. We're pretty much rural, and we do recognize that the problems with the Web site are probably just the tip of the iceberg.

How much security testing was done as part of the beta testing?

I also serve on the Finance Committee, and in the Finance Committee, CMS testified on doing the testing on this Web site.

I appreciate all of the speeches being given, and all of them have a seed of possibility. But evidently we are not going to water them or try to grow them. We are just going to talk about possibilities. There is enough blame to go around…

I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Hawaii.

I think this is the 11th time I have been through this discussion about 'the sky is falling.'

Wyoming families are not buying these arguments. They are saying you cannot spend more than you take in, and you definitely cannot keep doing it forever.

I have looked at both of the histories that have been discussed. One of them is the budget. The failure of the budget to not have a conference committee did not stop the Appropriations Committee from going through and doing 12…

Reserving the right to object, the reason we are in this mess right now is because we didn't do the budgets piecemeal. We are supposed to do them piecemeal. We are supposed to do 12 separate spending bills. We are supposed to do them one…

if businesses ran their operations the same way the government is running this shutdown, they would be bankrupt. Oh, that is right. That is kind of where we are, isn't it. Our national parks, particularly the ones that are revenue…

I ask unanimous consent that an extra 5 minutes be added to our side later. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Massachusetts.

That is a lot compared to the ones pulling the wagon. I will have some more comments on this later because it is a major crisis, but it didn't need to be a major crisis. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from…

Continuing from Mr. Johnson's article, he asks, ``So what can we do?'' Here is his answer: The nonviolent answer is simple! When the time comes, just quit pulling on the wagon. Take a three- to five-day vacation instead. Take as long a…

this has been an interesting discussion for the last 37 minutes. It lacks a little bit of a preamble. The reason we are in the situation we are in now is because Congress didn't do the spending bills when they were supposed to do the…

I wish to thank the Senator from Alabama for his comments. I too want to add my thanks and appreciation for law enforcement people all over the United States who are doing their job and often have to do things such as give tickets. They do…