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“Today marks the third day of the Republican Government Shutdown. It could be over in hours if the Republicans would just take “yes” for an answer. Yesterday afternoon, over 100 Members of Congress and others who backed what we were doing, were on the steps of the Capitol and spoke out to Speaker Boehner, telling him to allow a vote on the – clean CR means nothing to the American people – allow a vote to keep government open.”

“…the Republicans have put forth a bad number on the budget. Even their Chairman has said that it will not allow government to fulfill its responsibilities to the American people, the Republican Chairman of the Appropriations [Committee]. And then they add to that undermining the Affordable Care Act…”

“But this President, this is a president who has been so bipartisan and that is a quality that the American people like. But even he has reached the end of the line when it comes to, Mr. Clyburn’s words, ‘the shenanigans’ that the other side is putting up. Again, what they’re proposing is unworthy of the task before us and the responsibility of that we have.”

“I have said to you before, Lincoln said: ‘public sentiment is everything.’ This issue was made too hot for the Republicans to handle. They had to bring it to the floor. Mind you, over 500 days since, since the authorization ended, the previous authorization, over 500 days later, when all these good things could be springing from it to protect women from violence, and even at that 138 Republicans voted against it…”

“We’re all just beaming with pride at the election that just took place in the House Democratic Caucus, where we elected our Chairs, our Ranking Members for the 113th Congress.”

“He came to this country when he was nearly 50. He had already established himself as a leading artist in Rome, but he embraced America with passion and pride.”

“But the fact is that, unless we embrace science, all the things, it’s a national security issue how we defend our country, how we preserve God’s precious gift to us, this planet, how we preserve that, how we advance health wise, how we compete [for] jobs [and] the rest. We really have to – we really have to win this fight as to what the role science is and it is certainly not contradictory to being God-given.”

“Congress has never done more for consumers nor has the Congress passed more critical reforms of the credit card industry than under the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi.”

“Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I thank the gentle lady for yielding and commend her and her colleagues on the Rules Committee for their important work in bringing legislation to the floor. Madam Speaker, the clock is ticking. The clock is ticking on the need for us to raise the debt ceiling so that we do not default on our past obligations, that we uphold the full faith and credit of the United States of America.”

“Leader Pelosi. ‘Good morning. How are you all? Good. Last week, I saw Speaker Boehner say in his statement that the reason that he and President Obama couldn’t connect on an agreement was because they had two different visions of America. That may be so, but I also think they had two different reasons for coming to the table.'”