the only way I see us pursuing these reforms is by that type of conversation.

the minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

I mean, here you have 100 talented people coming together with all their experience in the world, and we just spend an incredibly, tediously slow nomination process instead of putting all those talents to work on legislation to make…

this expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

But what I have seen in the testimony was that the actual time for folks on the Privileged Calendar is slower than those who go to committee, and it is slower now than when that reform was passed.

the only way I see us pursuing these reforms is by that type of conversation.

the minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

the challenge is a reflection of almost tribal-level warfare between the parties.

I mean, here you have 100 talented people coming together with all their experience in the world, and we just spend an incredibly, tediously slow nomination process instead of putting all those talents to work on legislation to make…

this expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

Madam President, the Postal Service in the United States has always in the past been about great service. Their motto said all: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall stop these courageous couriers from swift completion of…

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Mr. President, as a parent of young children, I certainly understand the impulse to shield children from harmful or inappropriate content online. That is why I wrote section 230 of the Communications Act back in 1996--to empower companies…