Jeff Merkley actually said...

It is absolutely essential that for a democratic republic to function well, the foundation has to function well.

I referred to many of these changes as being done in the spirit of Jim Crow laws that existed prior to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act...

When our Committee went down to Georgia, Senator Klobuchar and I listened to stories about people waiting, I think five hours was one testim...

I was thinking about how historians look at an 80 year period in which the only thing that was blocked by extended debate in the filibuster ...