You have enough votes in the Senate now to pass every single one of those targeted continuing resolutions if Harry Reid would make then an orders --

I think part of the winning strategy is passing a series of clean, targeted continuing resolutions...

The big difference in Washington today is I don't sense that Barack Obama has anything like the personal skills that Bill Clinton had.

Ted Cruz ran on the grounds that he would fight in Washington. He didn't promise he'd win. He promised he would fight.

The underlying pressure of conservatives has actually moved the base of the Republican Party on this issue a fair distance.

Sure. Look, no one wants the United States to go into default and the United States isn't going to go into default. The treasury has, as you well know, many technical skills dragging this thing on for months. We attach things to the debt…

I have no concern about political damage.

I'd vote no but I'll also say to you, if Assad is still sitting there after the strikes, he's going to be in the position to say the United States didn't do much to affect me. I'm still in charge. And then what do we do?

The fact is, the treaty doesn't require military action.

This is an act of war. For Secretary Kerry to say, I don't see us getting into war as he prepares to fire missiles at a sovereign country, is totally misleading language.

I think you always have to worry. First of all you don't know what the Iranians are going to do to defend and protect Assad who has become in many, many ways their principal ally.

The most tough-minded answer to that question demonstrates that rebuilding and protecting New Orleans is in the national interest.