I think we do have a real challenge if so many new Senators do not know the history here.
Can we improve the process? Can we make it better?
the minority is not going to be willing to neutralize or significantly adjust its rights here if it would affect the abi...
I am not going to be at all interested in something that truncates or reduces the rights of the minority.
Senator Byrd, a member of this Committee and somebody who has forgotten more about the rules than most of us know.
Budget resolutions have become messaging instruments, not budgeting instruments.
Sense of the Senate really became absurd... it is purely messaging, and it is a giant waste of time.
I think we need as a body to think very, very carefully about do we want reconciliation to be used in that way.
If I were in the minority at this moment, I would want to think very, very carefully: Do I want an unfettered reconcilia...
our forefathers intended the Senate to be the cooling saucer.
I was honored to vote affirmatively on the confirmation of Senator Salazar. I think he is going to be a great Secretary ...
the First Americans should not have second class health care or second class education or second class housing.
We know the issues out there, we know how to address them and deal with them if we commit the resources and our time and...
I have used the word shameful, that in three of the last four years, I believe, we have not even had an Assistant Secret...
We have made promises, we have signed the line in treaty agreements, and we have trust responsibilities.
There is no single element of Senate rules that goes more against minority rights than reconciliation that I know of.
I think I could be persuaded on reconciliation.
One of the great things about the U.S. Senate is nothing is ever settled.
