"Republicans stepped across the aisle in 2013, met with Democrats, and voted with 78 votes at the beginning of President Obama's term to say we are going to change this and to not do extended debate for all of this."
"I think there is no easy moment to do it."
"I would think that would be appropriate only in the sense that if it is not being used, go ahead and bring it to the vote and get it resolved."
"I would not only in the sense that that seems to be a genie out of the bottle at this point."
"With some rare exceptions, obviously, with some very heated Cabinet officials, this rule that I am proposing would not change those a bit."
"The elimination, obviously, of the 60-vote protection, except for the Supreme Court, was done by a Congress controlled by Democrats."
"I literally took the exact same language as 2013, removed the sunset, and said this becomes permanent."
"The joy of the Senate is the minority can always express their displeasure in a multitude of different ways."
"The hardest hit right now would be State Department and DOD."
"Let us make it permanent and say this is how we are going to continue to function."
"We have to determine how we are going to do this."