EXCERPT:
SCHUMER: "The bottom line is very simple. On our last meeting, the President said I am going to shut the Government down. They are now feeling the heat. It is not helping the President. It is not helping the Republicans to be the owners of this shutdown. Today we gave them an opportunity to get out of that and open up the Government as we debate border security. And to say to them because he says he won’t sign it and use the Government as hostage, we should just give in? The American people don’t want that. That’s bad for our country and that’s not the way to govern."