Richard Durbin actually said...

It makes the Senate not an institution to be respected for its principles, but a dysfunctional institution which apparently is not even comm...

And one of the things that has disturbed me, Mr. Chairman, as much as all of the filibusters and the holds, is that we are not having confer...

If you do not care if they hate you, you can get an awful lot done in the Senate.

It strikes me that this really is offensive, that someone says, I have got to protect my rights, but in absentia, I have got things to do ba...