Heidi Alexander: “sometimes when I am traveling across Tennessee, someone will come up to me and say: Why don't you guys in the U.S.…”

“sometimes when I am traveling across Tennessee, someone will come up to me and say: Why don't you guys in the U.S. Senate ever do anything? So I have taken to carrying around a little card that I keep in my pocket. I hand it to them and I say: Well, I can read this to you in about 30 seconds, and this is what has happened in the last 18 months: the best economy in 18 years; lower taxes; biggest reforms in 31 years; biggest increase in financial support for the military in 15 years; biggest pay raise in 8 years for the military; more repeal of regulations than anyone can remember; a Supreme Court Justice; 21 conservative appeals court judges; Alaska energy, which took 38 years, and the Presiding Officer knows all about that; a new National Labor Relations Board, which could be the most important change of all; repealed the ObamaCare individual mandate; the Dodd-Frank mortgage rules are gone; Veterans Choice, which the President signed yesterday; Iran, Russia, and North Korea sanctions. All of that would not have happened without a Republican President, and it would not have happened without Republican majorities in the U.S. Congress. It took both. The person who asks me ``When are you guys ever going to do anything?'' will often say ``Well, I didn't know that; I hadn't realized that.'' So I am very proud of that record; that is in 18 months.…”