Bob Bennett: “That is a good summary, because in World War II, a lot of information from the private sector was considered secret…”

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

It may very well be that the solution to the problems that we talk about as a dysfunctional Senate lies somewhere other than amending the filibuster rule.

I do not dispute in any way, Mr. Chairman, the numbers that you have cited, but I do not want to leave the impression that all of the obstruction that has come as a result of the use of holds has come from the Minority side.

I do share a sense of significant unease over what has been happening in the Senate.