I think derivatives, while probably the vast majority of it is completely legitimate, the part that was not was the assessment of risk.
All of us who participated in supporting that bear responsibility.
I think there was one part of it that was very, very wrong, and I regret deeply my own going along with it.
I have no interest in restricting the rights of the minority.
Can we improve the process? Can we make it better?
the minority is not going to be willing to neutralize or significantly adjust its rights here if it would affect the ability to make our poi...
I am not going to be at all interested in something that truncates or reduces the rights of the minority.
Senator Byrd, a member of this Committee and somebody who has forgotten more about the rules than most of us know.
Budget resolutions have become messaging instruments, not budgeting instruments.
Sense of the Senate really became absurd... it is purely messaging, and it is a giant waste of time.
I think we need as a body to think very, very carefully about do we want reconciliation to be used in that way.