No matter how hard the President of the United States works, if one party is determined, for political reasons, to oppose something because it would give a success or a victory to the President of the United States, that is very shortsighted and harms the country, you're not harming Joe Biden personally. What you're harming is the country.

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I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

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Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-... by Steny Hoyer

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

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Read MoreLawmakers must use this additional time to fully fund the government before the end of the year.

Well, I think there are hard views on both sides, and sadly, apparently, President Donald Trump was perhaps right when President Donald Trump said of President Donald Trump own supporters that President Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and they would not require any accountability.

I have served with six Presidents. I have been in many, many, many meetings like this, never have I seen a president treat so disrespectfully a co-equal branch of the government of the United States.

Once we pass the (continuing resolution), hopefully no later than Friday (and) relatively early in the day, I'm hopeful that the Senate will take it up, that we'll have agreement and that we will send it to the president, that the president will sign it, the schedule will depend on when the CR can get done.

I thought the question was in regards to whether White House is actively considering articles of impeachment, which we are not at this time, i strongly support Chairman Jerry Nadler and The House Judiciary Committee as they proceed with their investigation' to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment to the full White House,' as the resolution states. It is critical that Congress have access to all of the relevant facts, and we will follow those facts wherever they lead, including impeachment.

This is a version of a vile, anti-Semitic attack that for centuries has demanded that Jewish people demonstrate some kind of quid pro quo in return for being considered loyal citizens, it is also a dangerous subversion of our American principles that all are entitled to their own views.

Not only was this request disrespectful of Rep. Tlaib but of the United States Congress as well, this matter is a self-inflicted wound by one of America's closest allies, one of our closest friends, and a vibrant democracy.

I am not worried. by Steny Hoyer

I am not worried.

He doesn't have to vote for it, every senator will have to make their own decision. But not to bring it to the floor is an abdication of his responsibility to the American people.

We haven't really discussed how to dispose of The House, i'm not gon na try to discourage him, you know, he has to do what he thinks is right.

Thats fiscally totally irresponsible and a game, [Mulvaney]wants maximum pressure in September to squeeze down as hard as he can on non-defense discretionary spending.

We want to move on it as quickly as possible. by Steny Hoyer

We want to move on it as quickly as possible.

We don't want to do it just individually, you know, Individual A, Individual B, Individual C. We want to confront this refusal by the administration to cooperate with the constitutional mandate that the Congress has oversight, so we're discussing that, and we haven't made that decision yet. And we haven't gotten all the catalogs yet in terms of how many specific refusals there have been, and rather than try to deal with each one of them individually, we may deal with them collectively.

America is not going to welch on its debts and what it owes. So I think we ought not to use that as a political issue, but, and this is a big but, we need to avoid a crisis of shutting down the government as happened under the The Alabama Republican leadership in the last Congress, which bled over to this Congress. As a result, I am urging that we do both in a bipartisan, constructive way.

Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point. Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgment.

The American people are going to have to weigh what The American people thoughts are, because The American people made the decision as to who the President of the United States was going to be, while we have impeachment authority, we need to be very cognizant of what The American people believe.

The carnage that we've seen perpetrated by gun violence over the last decade has heightened the American people's concern, and the bill that we're putting on the floor we believe has the support of 90 percent of the American people.