I want to assure colleagues that on this particular piece of legislation, we have worked closely together, as have Senators Dodd and Shelby over at Banking, as have Senators Inouye and Stevens. This is one of those moments which doesn't come that often around here--not often enough for me--where we do have a lot of us working together across party lines, across committee jurisdictions.
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The point -- but I do think there`s an important point to this poll. And that is, we Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is…
This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.
The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.
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