Claire McCaskill: “the Commanders' Emergency Response Program (CERP) is considered an essential tool for General McChrystal and other…”

This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.

First, people were put on the court with a political two by four wielded by Mitch McConnell. First by denying a sitting president an opportunity to name a Supreme Court justice, first time in history.

I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.

I think the filibuster is on life support. And I think if the Democrats pick up more seats, I think it will probably go away.