Harry Reid: “if I could, I am confident the Chair recognizes that I used leader time for my statement. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…”

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.

Barack Obama will go down as having the most successful Congress in the history of the country. Barack Obama changed the world.

after a quarter of a century, Senator Glenn left the Senate, and here is what he said: ``Yeah, I'll miss it, sure. But you move on to other things. That's it.'' That was John Glenn. He moved on to other things. Until a couple of years ago…

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.