Harry Reid: “If the majority agrees here, I will make a brief statement and use my leader time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic…”

The campaign financing is the root of all evil in Congress. It’s very, very bad. And we need to start with something very simple, be done with a simple majority.

The filibuster is going away. It is nothing that helps the country. It doesn’t help states. It doesn’t help individuals. It is on its way out. It’s a question of when it goes.

real value . . . not in producing or selling the [set-top] box but in the data that the box will collect.

we have now three hours until 10 o'clock. I hope that during that period of time, people will do whatever they need to do to make sure they get anything they want in, whatever they are trying to get. The reason I say that is that we are…