Catherine Cortez Masto

He needs to be here in Washington, bringing the parties together, being a constructive part of addressing the healthcare costs that we have in this country.

If he were to engage, that would help us move through this impasse of opening up the government

and addressing the Affordable Care Act subsidies so that we do not see health care insurance premiums increase for families.

I can't stress this enough, and it's just not unique to Nevada.

I know my family's in Nevada, a family of four.

If you're making $56,000 a year, you're going to see your health care premium go up by at least $200.

That's crazy.

There's going to be a double-digit increase for premiums for people, and they are not going to be able to afford it.

That means we're going to lose people on health care.

And the only time now we will see them, if they have an acute crisis and they're going to show up in emergency rooms, it's going to have a ripple effect for everybody's health care coverage in this country.

And it's going to have an impact on all of our hospitals and our clinics, including in our urban and rural areas.

So we really need to come together to address this issue in this conversation.

And that requires all of us talking and get beyond this impasse and start addressing and solving the problems of the American public.

This is what they want us to do.

Well, let me just say this.

This is part of the problem.

Instead of coming to talk, leadership talking amongst each other, Democrats and Republicans, and all of us working together like we normally should, we're hearing conversations from the press and offers coming from the press.

No offense to both of you, but this is where this should happen, right here in Washington, and us coming to the table, having these conversations.

That's part of the impasse, and this is my frustration, and some of my colleagues, and we see the same frustration

Republican leadership, Democratic leadership, the White House, we need to all be in the same room.