Bob Bennett: “A 30-year mortgage is traditionally retired in seven years, so somewhere, the mortgage disappears.”

I do not think that is what the original filibuster rule had in mind, but it has become the norm.

With sufficient foreign assistance, Iran could probably develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States by 2015.

It takes 60 votes to get anything through the Senate. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

If you kill the industrial base of solid rocket motors now with this action, in 2015 you cannot get it back.