On the recordJuly 11, 2013
I have in my hands a document entitled ``The Senate's Power to Make Procedural Rules by Majority Vote,'' and this lays out a whole host of viewpoints expressed in 2005 that I think would be interesting reading for my colleagues across the aisle because it was their document. I also have a long list of cases where every other year, on average, we have changed the application of a rule in order to make the Senate function in a different way, a better way. So this is far from unprecedented. It is time for us, together as Senators, to live up to our responsibility and restore the power to the executive branch to put their folks in place, operating under our advise and consent in the way envisioned in the Constitution. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
