We will feel it next year for that reason.
The hearing will come to order. And I want to thank everybody, including my friend Bob Bennett, for participating in this hearing.
It is the Senate where the Founding Fathers established a repository of checks and balances.
we ought to restore it to its traditional role as the deliberative body where we have amendments and we have debate.
I would guarantee them those rights.
I do think though, Senator, that the use of instruction-- obstructionist tactics by the minority and the majority's response in trying to ge...
I want to thank Senator Bennett, who has been a great partner in running constructive, thoughtful, non-partisan hearings.
Senators do not melt.
While the membership of the Senate will change, problems posed by the abuse of the filibuster are not going away.
However, far too often in today's Senate is the decision to begin debate itself is filibustered.
Senator Byrd complained about lobbyists walking into senators' offices and asking them to place holds on bills.