Harry Reid: “When morning business is announced, Senator Warner will be recognized for up to 10 minutes and Senator Alexander--for…”

The Senate is a place to kill things. It isn’t a place that you look to get things done.

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.

You cannot have a democracy that record 60 percent of the vote on everything. And that’s what the Republicans have done. They have made a mockery of what the Senate should be.

But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.