I think we do have a real challenge if so many new Senators do not know the history here.

our forefathers intended the Senate to be the cooling saucer.

I have no interest in restricting the rights of the minority.

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 points.

Senator Byrd, a member of this Committee and somebody who has forgotten more about the rules than most of us know.

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.

If I were in the minority at this moment, I would want to think very, very carefully: Do I want an unfettered reconciliation process?

There is no single element of Senate rules that goes more against minority rights than reconciliation that I know of.

I think I could be persuaded on reconciliation.

One of the great things about the U.S. Senate is nothing is ever settled.