Tom Udall actually said...

The Senate of each new Congress is not bound by the rules of the previous Senates under Section 5 of Article 1 of the Constitution.

This Congress will go down in history as probably one of the more productive Congresses in generations.

I think that we need to adjust the rules, not to become the House, but to become a restored, effective Senate with the power to deliberate s...

the filibuster used to be the exception to the rule. In today's Senate, it is becoming a straitjacket.