Let's get rid of this idea that there is no role for Congress or the Federal Government in election laws.

It is entirely within the authority of Congress, Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution does in fact begin by saying Legislature shall enact voting regulations.

We can’t let this wave of voter suppression, and the changing of the rules that you mentioned happen.

It’s important to remember that most failures of democracy as we look at history, started with legitimate elections.

When it comes to democracy itself, and that’s at what at risk, Rachel, I’ve never been worried about the future of my country, because we are headed for a place where people don’t trust elections.

democracy itself is more important than any Senate rule.

This is fragile, and we are in a very dangerous moment. This is the most dangerous moment I think since 1860 in terms of the future of the country.

24 percent of the American people have an effective veto, over anything that 76 percent of the American people think is important public policy. I don’t think that squares the democratic theory.

The filibuster is not in the Constitution, we need to restore the Senate to what it was back when I worked there 40 years ago.

I think that really, really makes a difference. And it was -- it was -- I guess you shouldn’t say shocking. It wasn’t really surprising. I didn’t expect to get those Republican votes. But to have them simply say, we just don’t want to have…

You can get 41 votes out of the current Senate, which was enough to block any legislation. And if you take the states that those 41 senators represent, add all the population together, you get 24 percent of the American people. So, the…

Not to prolong the discussion, but Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution makes it abundantly clear that the responsibility for election administration is a joint one between the States and the Congress, and that the Congress, at any…

the United States of America is an anomaly in world history. We are a 245-year experiment in self-government, which is based upon an idea that was radical in 1776. It was tested at Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, and the Wilderness. It was…

with regard to the comments of the esteemed Senator from Texas, I say to the Senator: I would suggest, if your colleagues are interested in election reform and election laws, that we have a dialogue and that we have some discussion. I…

But everything you just said would lead me to believe that that money should flow through the coastal states where that kind of work would take place.

Aren't the states that are most directly impacted the ones that would logically be working on the mitigation?

You have a statute over here that has been in place for years on oil and gas revenues. You have a new set of revenues and you are saying, well, we are just not going to talk about that.

Well, I guess what I am trying to get at--is your problem with the percentages or the concept? Do you support the concept of revenue sharing from offshore wind revenues? Yes or no?