Harry Reid: “I ask that the Senator, when we finish, be permitted to resume the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…”

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

I have to win 50 plus one.

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.