 In October 2013, he voted in favor of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which ended the shutdown and raised, at least for a few months, the debt ceiling.He said, "We are now seeing the end of this agonizing odyssey that this body has been put through, but far more importantly, the American people have been put through.It's one of the more shameful chapters that I have seen in the years that I have spent here in the U.S.