Chairman Gensler, this whole conversation we are having about the future of derivatives, what will be regulated, what will not be regulated, what is standard, what will be custom--...
If you do not care if they hate you, you can get an awful lot done in the Senate.
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...
I do believe that we have reached a point now where the American people are losing faith in this institution.
Nominations as we have noted came out with overwhelming votes, if not unanimous votes, out of Committee.
The idea that Senator Byrd, the late, great Senator Byrd, when he was extraordinarily ill, had to be forced to come to the floor to provide ...
It is not going to get better. It is going to get worse because every time they do a filibuster on us, we are going to do two on them.
Do not you believe that there should come an obligation with those who initiate the filibuster to at least be present?
I predicted at that time that an arms race was underway.
the filibuster is an indispensable tool for controlling the effects of partisanship and factionalism...
It makes the Senate not an institution to be respected for its principles, but a dysfunctional institution which apparently is not even comm...