This Colorado senator blasted Ted Cruz for his shutdown hypocrisy — right to his face.
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00:00When the senator from Texas shut this government down in 2013, my state was flooded.
00:09It was underwater. People were killed. People's houses were destroyed.
00:17Their small businesses were ruined forever.
00:30I intend to speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.
00:40I do not like them, Sam I am. I do not like green eggs and ham.
00:46Okay, we get they hate Donald Trump, but just because you hate somebody
00:53doesn't mean you should shut the government down.
00:55I seldom, as you know, rise on this floor to contradict somebody on the other side.
01:02I've worked very hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way
01:07with the presiding officer, with my Republican colleagues, but
01:12these crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is crying for
01:16first responders are too hard for me to take.
01:19How ludicrous it is that this government is shut down over a promise the president of the United States couldn't keep.
01:34And that America is not interested in having him keep.
01:38This idea that he was going to build a medieval wall across the southern border of Texas.
01:44Take it from the farmers and ranchers that were there and have the Mexicans pay for it, isn't true.
01:51That's why we're here.