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Recent Press Releases

‘The Democratic Leader can end this today. We can get past this manufactured crisis and get onto the host of serious issues before us that require thoughtful, bipartisan negotiations. This shut down is going to get a lot worse tomorrow. A lot worse. Today would be a good day to end it. All we have to do is pass the commonsense legislation the Senate is currently considering. Ending a government shutdown and ensuring health care continues for vulnerable children – there is nothing in this measure that my Democratic friends cannot support.’
'So I want to assure the American people we will be right back at this tomorrow, and for as long as it takes. We will keep at this until Democrats end their extraordinary filibuster of government funding and children’s healthcare, and allow a bipartisan majority of Senators to reopen the federal government for all Americans and get Congress back on track. The Democratic Leader may put his personal political priorities ahead of everything else, no matter the cost. But Republicans stand with the American people.’
‘The House of Representatives, the president, and a bipartisan majority of Republican and Democratic Senators all agreed on a compromise bill that would have prevented a shutdown. It would enable Congress to do the common sense thing: Keep negotiating other issues while also providing for our troops, our veterans, and millions of vulnerable Americans. But the Democratic Leader chose to filibuster that bipartisan bill. So here we are.’