A) Since when do Democrats care about how much stuff costs? B) He’s wildly over exaggerating the cost to “keep the place lit.”

Via The Hill:

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Wednesday said last night’s filibuster from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and implied that Cruz was irresponsible to foist this cost upon the public.

“I wonder if that senator ever stopped to consider how much it cost the taxpayers to keep this place lit, to keep the clerks and the people here, all the police, all the safety people here and around outside, just to keep this place running, just so one person could speak all night,” Harkin said of Cruz on the Senate floor.

“I wonder if he ever considered that,” he added. “Like I said, it’s anybody’s right to speak, but you have to wonder about responsibility, about being responsible to the body and to the public at large.”