The goal is to make certain that taxpayers are never again on the hook because a firm is deemed too big to fail.
If you do not care if they hate you, you can get an awful lot done in the Senate.
It is no way to run a government.
It makes the Senate not an institution to be respected for its principles, but a dysfunctional institution which apparently is not even comm...
he wonders what sort of rules changes he would want if he were in the minority
Once you have been around for a few years and you have cast thousands of votes, you figure there is plenty for them to work with and I do no...
I think we need fundamental change.
I could not disagree more. Why should the minority, any minority, compromise?
Does not this reflect the new reality that maybe Senator Byrd did not have to live within his political experience, that now is the reality ...
I hope with some of these, which I think are common sense things, do not detract from the Minority's ability.
When I first came here, it was, okay, we are going to write this bill in conference.
It is just physically impossible.
I would like to follow up on that, because we had a classic example where a member from your side forced a vote on a Saturday on a filibuste...
It promotes majority rules.
We are losing a lot of good people, and at the same time, we are finding agencies, critical agencies, that are left headless.
I do not believe that we should move the threshold down, although I do think that moving to three-fifths of those present and voting would d...
There is something fundamentally wrong with this institution.
So today I would argue that the Senate is not only not functional, it is not very interesting.
