Mark Dayton: “I send a modification of my amendment to the desk, and I ask unanimous consent it be so modified.”

I'm just so disgusted with that man. To shoot any lion but to lure a lion like that out of the preserve and shoot him, I mean, how could anybody think that's sport? Just appalling.

It's everywhere, and that's the part that makes it complicated a bit to total all the damage everywhere, but it's all part of one storm system.

I urge you and your colleagues to support it and move it quickly through the process so work on this important project can resume as quickly as possible.

It has been almost 6 years since I was sworn in as Minnesota's 33rd U.S. Senator with my friend and colleague Paul Wellstone at my side. I began my term hopeful and optimistic. The Senate was evenly divided, with 50 Democrats and 50…