Senator Chuck Schumer

That's why they've had us vote 10 times.

They thought they could pressure us, bamboozle us, threaten us.

And they haven't.

And the vast majority of my caucus and the vast majority of the House caucus is.

And the reason is we have been very proud of building up the health care system and letting people get decent health care.

And we don't want to see it undone particularly in one fell swoop like they did.

So we feel, as I said, it's not.

It's a moral imperative.

It's a people imperative above everything else.

I said that.

Well, you know, I think overall we want to fix it first.

Everyone agrees we ought to negotiate.

Now, look, a negotiation, when the Republicans realize that they should sit down and talk to us and Johnson realizes he ought to bring Congress back.

You know, I tell people federal workers are working and not getting paid, and House Republicans are not working and getting paid.

Federal workers are working and not getting paid.

House Republicans are getting paid and not working.

So I think we all agree that we should have a negotiation.

Once we have that negotiation, there may be, you know, some people may want a little more, a little less.

We have to solve the problem.

That will be the watchword.