We need to spend close to $2 trillion in the next 10 years to improve all of our infrastructure.
we are gaining muscle memory that every nominee... we are going to still go through the cloture.
My state does expect me to vote.
cloture still should not be used--and his term was--except in extraordinary circumstances.
At the end of the day, if the pause on this is to say, well, let us wait 3 years and we will see if a Democratic President is elected and th...
If we are going to get back to actually operating, I would suggest that we actually get back to operating.
We should certainly do that.
My colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem willing to abdicate our advice and consent responsibilities and just act as a rubber stamp...
The White House owes us a lot more people to be able to put through the nomination process, but even if they got here, we are not moving the...
What can be done to actually get us back to where we can have debate again.
If the majority is serious about rules reform, we need bipartisan support.
I would guess somewhere around 150 fewer than President Obama at this point, maybe more than that, that President Trump has put out than Pre...
Dual tracking is something that has been done by the Senate by unanimous consent before.
we can either do nominations or legislation, but the Senate cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.
It is clear that this is being used to slow down the other work of the Senate and for no other purpose.
The blue slip issue is, quite frankly, a great conversation piece.
Republicans stepped across the aisle in 2013, met with Democrats, and voted with 78 votes at the beginning of President Obama's term to say ...
I think there is no easy moment to do it.
