Barack Obama: “We commend their determination to continue to make important progress toward healing old wounds and lifting people out…”

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.